More than 700 visitors of EXPO 2017 needed medical care due to abnormal heat

More than 700 medical addresses have arrived on the panel of emergency medical service in the territory of the EXPO 2017 exhibition for the first week, BNews.kz reports.

The director of the department of service providing JSC Astana EXPO 2017 National Company Diyas Azbergenov reported about it during the press conference following the results of a week of the EXPO 2017 exhibition.

"In a week in the territory of the exhibition, there were 714 medical addresses. The majority of cases were the share of heatstrokes and overheats," he declared.

The head of the department connects these incidents with an abnormal heat which stood all last week.