The effects of climate change have been felt all over the world, especially in the past summer months. New temperature records were broken in many parts of the world, and there were unprecedented levels of fires and various weather events in many points. While dozens of people lose their lives every day due to reasons related to climate change, a woman who was hospitalized was diagnosed with ‘climate change’ for the first time in the world.
Doctors at the British Columbia hospital in Canada said heat waves and poor air quality were responsible for the condition of the 70-year-old woman who came to the hospital. Doctors stated that the woman was diagnosed with the world’s first patient suffering from “climate change”.
Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity:
The World Health Organization, in an article published at the end of October, stated that climate change is the biggest health threat facing humanity. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated that the world’s temperature increase should be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius in order to prevent the devastating health effects of climate change and millions of deaths due to climate change.
Announcing that 150 thousand people lost their lives due to reasons related to climate change before, WHO also shared some health risks related to climate change in its article. Accordingly, climate change causes injuries and deaths due to extreme weather events, heat-related diseases, respiratory diseases, water-borne diseases, diseases transmitted from animals to humans, diseases transmitted by blood from other animals, malnutrition and food-borne diseases, and deterioration of mental and psychosocial health. it could be.
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