Climate change to cause 250,000 extra deaths per year: expert
Climate change will cause some 250,000 additional deaths from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat exposure per year between 2030 and 2050, warned Director of the Department of International Cooperation Tran Thi Giang Huong on October 19.
HCM City (VNA) – Climatechange will cause some 250,000 additional deaths from malnutrition, malaria,diarrhea and heat exposure per year between 2030 and 2050, warned Director ofthe Department of International Cooperation Tran Thi Giang Huong on October 19.
Severe weather has big impacts onhealthcare, increasing communicable and non-communicable diseases, she said ata conference on climate change and its health effects in Vietnam withprovincial medical partners held by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in HCM City.
Extreme high air temperaturesdirectly contribute to deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory disease,particularly among elderly people, while increasing rainfall and floods arelikely to heighten the risk of diarrhea and water-borne diseases, Huong added. [More dengue fever likely as rain continues]
According to Do Manh Cuong from theMoH’s Agency of Health Environment, Vietnam has warmed by 1.7 – 2.4 degrees Celsiusin recent years. The country has also seen an increase of up to 20 percent inrainfall in the northern and central regions while the south has experiencedlower rainfall during the dry season, triggering widespread drought, he said.
Rising temperature and rainfall areassociated with increase in diarrhea, dengue fever and hand-foot-mouth cases.The number of diarrhea infection is more likely to boom after heavy rain,severe flooding and rising water level in rivers, he noted.
The participants of the conference proposedthe MoH to formulate an action plan in response to climate change with a visionto 2030 and develop a network of health clinics resilient to climate change.
They also urged the ministry to ensure clean water supply and hygiene forpeople and implement projects for environment cleanup and diseaseprevention.-VNA
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Illustrative image. (Photo: VNA)
