Professor Sanmarco, interviewed on Europe 1, reacted to the balance sheet of the heat wave. While praising the efforts made since the heat episode of 2003, he believes they are not enough.

The Minister of Health announced Sunday, the balance sheet of the two heat waves of the summer: this year, they caused the death of 1,500 people, ten times less than in 2003. According to Professor Sanmarco, specialist of public health is a major step forward in terms of public health. "1,500 deaths is good, it proves that we have been in the right direction, it takes zero deaths in the next heat wave," he says.

Protecting the elderly

"We realized that the heat could be dangerous and that we could protect ourselves from it, but the old characters, the most isolated ones, are still exposed, which remains a problem. in advance, very upstream, and put them in another air-conditioned place or take them out of the heat-exposed area, "advises the professor.