KC hospital to host live World Cup webcasts to discuss fan safety, player injuries
University Health has created a limited-edition webcast, Healthy Goals KC, that will go live on YouTube the day after each World Cup match in Kansas City, hospital officials announced Wednesday.
The webcast will provide World Cup-related health information from physicians — from discussions about major injuries that might happen during the games to health advice for fans. (Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.)
The hospital — formerly Truman Medical Center — noted that its emergency department is the closest to Fan Fest, which will take place about a mile away on the lawn of the National WWI Museum and Memorial.
Keeping thousands of fans from around the world healthy and safe will be a heavy lift for Kansas City’s medical community, from local hospitals to the emergency medical services of paramedics and first responders.
Public health officials have spent more than a year-and-a-half preparing for what they consider their biggest concerns: the Kansas City heat, a measles outbreak, cases of food poisoning and sexually transmitted infections, or STIs.
Health departments in nine local counties on the Missouri and Kansas sides — along with city of Kansas City and Independence health departments — have coordinated their preparations and World Cup safety messaging.
The Healthy Goals KC webcast can be found on the hospital’s YouTube channel, @UniversityHealthKC.
They go live the morning after each match unless the match is on a Friday or Saturday. Then they go live the following Monday.
The 30-minute webcasts will begin at 8 a.m. on June 17, 22 and 26, and July 6 and 13.
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