2023-07-20 10:24:10
With the cooperation of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the World Health Organization (WHO) plans to launch a alert system for groups of people who may be most at risk from heat waves.
“We are particularly concerned about people who suffer from cardiovascular diseases, diabetes or asthma, and of course for children, pregnant women and the elderly,” said the director of the WHO Department of Public Health and Environment, Maria Neirain a press conference.
The Spanish expert from the WHO urged governments to develop local warning strategies and plans to ensure “immediate detection of all people potentially at risk.”
They work to prevent the risk of people with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes or asthma, children, pregnant women or the elderly
Neira also stressed the importance of “reducing our carbon footprint” to mitigate the phenomenon of climate change and thus reduce the frequency, intensity and duration of these heat waves.
According to experts, heat waves are among the deadliest climate threats. It is estimated that last summer the episodes of extreme temperatures caused 60,000 additional deaths only in Europe.
In 2022, the excess mortality caused in our continent by the successive heat waves was registered mainly in countries of the continental south: Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal.
The temperature record for Europe was recorded on August 1, 2022 in Sicily (Italy): 48.8 degrees Celsius.
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