Visiting a festival in Nagoya with thorough measures against heat stroke August 25, 17:38 for the Olympics and Para
One year later, at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, heat stroke countermeasures are an issue. Under such circumstances, experts who examined the emergency medical system for the tournament visited the Nagoya City Festival where the number of emergency transport vehicles was reduced due to thorough heat countermeasures.
We visited the “Nippon Center Festival” held in Nagoya for 4 days until the 25th.
The festival is attended by approximately 20,000 dancers from around the country, and is expected to have approximately 2 million visitors.
In Nagoya, the maximum temperature has exceeded 40 degrees Celsius, so we are focusing on measures against heat stroke. At the venue, we measure the `` Heat Index '' which is an index for prevention, and display it on the screen. We are calling on the audience to be vigilant.
In addition, city firefighters are stationed at the local headquarters and set up direct telephone calls with the firefighting command center. It is arranged.
In the field, there are also events to overcome the heat while having fun with a device that jets a large amount of water, and this measure has reduced the number of emergency transporters to one-tenth of the previous.
Dr. Takaki Shimizu of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine who visited the site said, “The system is so rich that you can use almost the same system, such as measuring the heat index and jetting water. I was talking.
Koichi Mizuno, managing director of the organization that hosts the festival, said, “If you can make use of the know-how cultivated in the hot summer in the Olympics,” he said.