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Increased health risks, limited resources: French hospitals overwhelmed by heatwave
French hospitals are overwhelmed due to a heatwave, with reports of four times as many cardiac arrests and rising deaths, as noted by the mayor of Paris. France Télévision documented the situation in the emergency room at Châteauroux.
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