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Twenty-eight of the deaths were in Montreal, Marie-Claude Lacasse told the Department of Health. Dr. David Kaiser of the Montreal Regional Department of Public Health stated that most of the victims were over the age of 50 and lived alone and did not have air conditioning. Sunday. Temperatures were in the mid 90s for Montreal Sunday and Monday, about 20 degrees higher than normal temperatures this time of year.
"The other problem is people alone," added Dulisse. "Obviously, when we get there and the person has passed, they are very rarely already with the family, so the biggest factor is: are you with and are you surrounded by people who can support each other?"
Friends and neighbors make "regular checks" on elderly or sick people.
Earlier this week, health officials began conducting door-to-door checks with vulnerable people. Montreal health authorities also opened 19 cooling stations in public health and social services buildings across the city and asked people to call public transit services to get to one of the city's health centers. air-conditioned centers. "The higher temperatures and wet Sunday and Monday will affect mostly southern Quebec," said Serge Mainville of Environment Canada, according to CBC, a partner of CNN news
