In Portugal alone, more than a thousand die because of heat wave | World
More than a thousand people died in Portugal because of the heat wave that the country is going through, according to data released this Tuesday (19) by the country’s public health body.
Graça Freitas, the head of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS said that the country needs to equip itself to withstand the effects of climate change, because temperatures should continue to rise). “Portugal is like regions of the globe that can be more decided by extreme heat”, he said.
In Portugal alone, more than a thousand die because of heat wave
According to him, the need to be more prepared for hot countries.
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The references in the country of 40ºC last week. There has been a decrease in the last few days, but, according to Freitas, they are still above average for this period of the year.
The DGS: until the next day, but in excess, occurred for 138 days of the wave, reaching the 13th of numbers with data that were updated on July 13, 063 days.
The data so far show how more elderly people are dying because of the wave of Carlos Antunes, a researcher at the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Lisbon.
The number of deaths in the future will depend, among others, on the preventive measures that people take, on how nursing homes will serve children and infrastructure adaptation, he said he will take care of.
“Change must increase health, change the state of public health so that it is intensified or minimized”, he says.
In the country, it is said that forest fires have three main causes: high temperatures, prolonged drought and poor forest control.
There are also fires in other countries, such as Spain.