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Wide shot fountain with Eiffel Tower in background2. Various people in fountain, refreshing themselvesFILE - August 20033. Exterior Saint-Antoine hospital4. Old woman on stretcher being taken care of during last year heatwave5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eRecent\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot fountain with Eiffel Tower in background\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various people in fountain, refreshing themselves\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - August 2003\u003cbr/\u003e3. Exterior Saint-Antoine hospital\u003cbr/\u003e4. Old woman on stretcher being taken care of during last year heatwave\u003cbr/\u003e5. Old woman drinking water\u003cbr/\u003e6. Baby being given bottle of water\u003cbr/\u003eRecent\u003cbr/\u003e7. Doctors talking to each other\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (French) Patrick Pelloux, head of AMUHF (Association des médecins urgentistes de France - association of emergency doctors of France):\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are four levels. On those four levels, the first two are working. We know this because it's been operational since the beginning of June, a system of prevention that we never had before. So that is good. A sanitary level, that means all the emergency services, the firefighters, Meteo-France, are working with the (Institut National de Veille Sanitaire) national institute of sanitary watchdog, so we are aware of what can happen, according to the weather forecast, to the activities criteria of the emergency services and the firefighters. So all that works.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Nurse with patient on stretcher in corridor\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (French) Patrick Pelloux, head of AMUHF (Association des médecins urgentistes de France - association of emergency doctors of France):\u003cbr/\u003e\"Where it's not going to work, it's the level 3. Level 3 is the alert level, in case we have the same humanitarian catastrophe as last year, we would probably have the same consequences, as we are closing the same amount of beds throughout the summer period. This causes major problem, it is mainly due to a very bad employment policy within the hospitals, which means that it would not work well if ever we were to have a reproduction or last year's catastrophe.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - August 2003\u003cbr/\u003e11. Exterior funeral home\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various coffins inside\u003cbr/\u003eRecent\u003cbr/\u003e13. Set up shots of Paris deputy mayor Daniele Hoffman-Rispal\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniele Hoffman-Rispal, Paris deputy mayor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We send this document to everyone about 75 years old, which gives all the necessary and practical things to know, what to do if it is very hot, before summer and during summer. For instance, you need to see your doctor to know what kind of pills you can take - this is very important.\" \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close up document\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniele Hoffman-Rispal, Paris deputy mayor: \u003cbr/\u003e\"On this document, there is also a phone number, and people who are very alone, who don't have families, we know that now in the big cities, a lot of women generally are living alone, and we have to know them, so we ask them to phone us, to tell us if they are alone, if they need help, in the case of a major heatwave.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Exterior of home for elderly people \"Oasis\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Director of Oasis home retirement Louisa Oulddris taking air conditioning unit to old woman in wheelchair \u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (French) Louisa Oulddris, director of Oasis home retirement:\u003cbr/\u003e\" We have all material that we need, but I think it is important to not forget that to help elderly people drink, we need staff. And I think we need a lot of staff and and we must not forget that it is all year round that we need a lot of staff.\" \u003cbr/\u003e20. Various of old people in cooled rest room\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (French) Louisa Oulddris, director of Oasis home retirement:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are in the animation room, which has been cooled and the material for this was installed on the second of July, so this summer, in the case of a heat wave, we will be able to bring the residents here accompanied by the staff, and give them drinks and the time to replenish themselves. They will need around three hours in this room in order for them to feel better.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e22. Pan down from air conditioning unit on ceiling to woman working\u003cbr/\u003e23. Old people seen through fish tank\u003cbr/\u003eHospitals, retirement homes and the government in France are ready to combat a potential heat wave in case of a replay of soaring temperatures that left thousands dead last summer. \u003cbr/\u003eBut up to 30 per cent of hospital beds may be unavailable for patients during France's traditional holiday time despite painful lessons learned from last summer's deadly heat wave, a prominent emergency physician said on Thursday.\u003cbr/\u003eNearly 15,000 people died during the 2003 heat wave, partly because the weeks-long hot spell struck in August when many French people go on holiday. Hospitals, operating with reduced staffs, were overwhelmed.\u003cbr/\u003ePatrick Pelloux, head of AMUHF (Association des médecins urgentistes de France - association of emergency doctors of France), who was among the first to raise the alarm that last summer's heat wave was causing casualties, conducted a survey of summer staffing at French hospitals, which have been hit by budget cuts on top of traditional vacations. \u003cbr/\u003eOverall, the survey found 20 per cent to 30 per cent fewer beds available for the summer.\u003cbr/\u003eThe government has touted what it calls a \"heat wave plan\" that pledged greater vigilance and supplied money for awareness campaigns and air conditioning at retirement homes and hospitals. But critics say the funding was often diverted for other urgent health care services.\u003cbr/\u003eThe conservative government came under intense criticism last year for failing to act fast enough to stem the death toll, blamed on a range of problems from lack of air conditioning and staffing shortages at retirement homes to summertime vacationing by doctors and nurses.\u003cbr/\u003eThe heat wave hit primarily in August, France's traditional holiday period, a time when many families on getaways left elderly relatives at home alone.\u003cbr/\u003eSo the French government had increased staffing at hospitals nationwide, hiring 754 people to work in geriatric wards and 745 people in emergency rooms.\u003cbr/\u003eAbout 80 per cent of retirement homes in the country now have what the government calls \"cool rooms\" - a common room with an air conditioner. \u003cbr/\u003eTemperature readings last August soared to record levels in France, often topping 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees 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