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As Greece braces for an aggravated heatwave this week, the Municipality of Athens has activated exigency measures to safeguard nationalist health, peculiarly for susceptible populations.
Beginning Wednesday, June 25, and continuing for arsenic agelong arsenic necessary, the municipality volition unfastened 7 air-conditioned Friendship Clubs crossed the city. These nationalist spaces volition run regular from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., offering alleviation from utmost temperatures for residents and visitors alike.
The participating Friendship Clubs are located successful the pursuing areas:
- Aghios Pavlos – Mamouri 22 & Dymis, phone: 210 9200 0269
- Neos Kosmos (“The Ascension of the Lord”) – Heldreich 15, phone: 210 9240 403
- Votanikos – Kozanis 4, phone: 210 3423 716
- Kolokynthou – Aimonos 9 & Astrous, phone: 210 5140 877
- Agios Eleftherios – Acharnon 372, phone: 210 2012 334
- Kypseli – Skyrou & Kafkasou, phone: 210 8815 877
- Ampelokipi – Panormou & Vatheos, phone: 210 6459 890
Municipal officials are urging residents—especially the elderly, radical with chronic illnesses, and those without entree to cooling—to instrumentality vantage of these facilities.
In addition, the metropolis has established enactment hotlines for those needing aesculapian proposal oregon assistance successful coping with the heat. Citizens tin telephone the 24-hour Citizen Service Line astatine 1595 oregon the “Heatwave Line” of the Municipal Clinics astatine 210 3638 049, disposable regular from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
These measures are portion of Athens’ broader vigor preparedness plan, which aims to minimise health risks during utmost upwind events, progressively communal owed to climate change.
International visitors presently successful Athens are besides invited to usage these cooling centres.
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