Cases of taking heat wave-stricken people to hospitals triple in July
Social affairsAug 2, 2018
The number of cases in which rescuers drove ambulances to take people hit by a heat wave across South Korea to hospitals tripled from a year earlier to 1,066 in July, government data showed Thursday. The data from the National Fire Agency also revealed the agency's rescuers were dispatched to deal with drowning accidents 226 times in the month, up from 106 times in the same month last year. During the month, there were 883 cases of rescuers supplying water to areas stricken with drought, a sev