byThe charts below compare five different countries, showing the electricity used (measured in megawatts or mw) in a typical hospital during one week, and also the number of emergency medical calls made by local residents during the same week. The last chart shows the average time (in minutes) spent on assessing emergency cases by hospital medical staff before the patients are treated. Chart 1 (below): Electricity used (megawatts or mw) in a typical hospital Chart 2 (below): Number of emergency medical calls made by local residents chart 3: average time (in minutes) spend on assessing emergency cases by hospital medical staff before treatment.

The charts show

electricity

use

, local emergency calls and time spent on patients for a group of typical hospitals. Regarding

electricity

, we see that consumption in the French and Japanese hospitals is roughly stable during the week, fluctuating around 32 and 18 MW respectively. In Canada and

Russia

,

electricity

use

climbs dramatically towards the end of the week, going from 26 to 38 MW and from 12 to 24 MW. In Argentina,

however

, the

use

actually declines by almost half. There is a similar pattern in the number of emergency calls made, which fluctuates in France (around 90 calls) and Canada (around 110). In

Canada

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these calls rise by roughly half, from around 105 on Monday to over 160 on Sunday, with the figure in

Russia

showing a similar growth to 110 by the weekend. Argentina is again the exception, with a decline of about half.

By contrast

, time spent on patient assessment is generally stable during the week in all the countries except

Russia

, where there is a marked rise from Monday’s 12 minutes (which is the typical daily rate of each country except Japan) to 28 minutes on Sunday. In summary, it seems that

electricity

use

may reflect an increase in emergency calls made, but only in

Russia

does assessment time increase by the same pattern.