At the start bulletin heat waves Ministry Health - ANSA.it

Into ROME – In time for the arrival of the first warm and ‘shared the signaling system waves of heat from the Ministry of Health. The portal will ministerial ‘can refer forecasts up to 72 hours in 27 cities’ Italian.

” On the basis of models – said the site – are processed daily bulletins on the possible health effects of weather conditions provided at 24, 48 and 72 hours, on a scale that goes from level ‘zero’, corresponding to the absence of risk, to the level ‘three’, which provides conditions of high risk and persistent for three or more ‘consecutive days” .

The ministry has also updated the ‘Guidelines for the prevention of the effects of heat on health’, dating from 2004:” In Italy in recent decades confirms a steady increase in summer temperatures – remember the document – and according to forecasts will be ‘more and more’ likely to observe conditions.” Among the signs there ‘s also the exhortation to increase the attention at the’ early wave ‘, which are the most’ harmful to health.