More than 100 intoxications as the big freeze continues in Cataluña

More than 100 intoxications as the big freeze continues in Cataluña
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By h.b. - Mar 11, 2010 - 1:01 PM
105 cases have been treated in hospitals and health centres in Girona and one person has died

A chemist tries to do business without power in Lloret de Mar - EFE

More than 100 people are suffering from intoxication from incorrectly adjusted gas heaters as some homes in the area are into their fourth day without power.

One person, a 41 year old woman from Ultramort, Baix Empordà, has died from CO poisoning, and 105 people have been treated in health centres and hospitals in the region. Three have been kept in for observation in the Palamós Hospital. Many of the problems have resulted from poorly ventilated domestic generators as people tried to keep warm.

Cataluña remains on an emergency level 1 with the forecast of even more snow, and below freezing temperatures have returned to many areas inland, in the Pyrenees and on the Baleares.

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