Schwerin (dpa / mv) - Clinics in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are reporting an increased number of patients in the emergency room due to the heat. In any case, there are more patients as a result of heat-related illnesses, especially the chronically ill and older people are affected, said Matthias Napp, senior physician at the University Hospital in Greifswald, on Thursday. A typical reason for admission is, among other things, an acute lack of liquid in people with kidney or circulatory diseases. The NDR had previously reported.
The Südstadt Clinic in Rostock and the Helios Clinics in Schwerin also reported more patients coming to them due to the high temperatures of around 30 degrees.
From Napp's point of view, the fact that older people in particular end up in hospital in this country is also favored by tourism. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is a holiday region that is particularly attractive for senior citizens. However, he also attributed an overall driving effect to demographics and climate change: there are more and more old people in Germany, with an increasing number of hot days a year. On the other hand, Napp does not see a fundamentally incorrect handling of the temperatures by the population, the majority are behaving correctly.
