Emergency departments across England processed a record 2,457,398 attendances in May 2026 during extreme heatwave conditions. The figure surpassed the previous monthly record by 25,000 visits, highlighting climate-related pressures on NHS services. โ Photo by George Morina on Pexels (Pexels License)
MD, MPH, PhD. Editor-in-Chief, Georgian Medical Journal (GMJ). Professor and Head, School of Public Health, David Tvildiani Medical University (DTMU), Tbilisi, Georgia. Chair, Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG). President, Accrรฉditation Sans Frontiรจres (ASF), Paris. Secretary/Treasurer, UEMS Section of Public Health. WHO Consultant, Health and Migration, Geneva. Former Member, UN Secretary-General's Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent (IAP-EWEC, 2016โ2021). ORCID: 0000-0001-7609-4515.