Heat wave strikes: Health hotline active for risk groups!

Heat wave strikes: Health hotline active for risk groups!

The current heat wave that Germany has captured brings temperatures of up to 40 degrees and is expected to reach its peak on Wednesday. As the SVZ , it is particularly important to pay attention to your own health, since high temperatures can cause health difficulties.

To help citizens, the Barmer Berlin/Brandenburg has set up a special heat hotline. This can be reached daily from 6 a.m. to midnight on the free phone number 0800 84 84 111. Risk groups such as older people, children, pregnant women, workers who are outdoors, and chronically ill people receive individual and medically well -founded tips on heat -related health risks here. In particular, people who take medication should note that their organism reacts differently in heat.

health risks of the heat

according to the Robert Koch-Institut (rki) The increase in heat in the coming decades is a direct consequence of Climate change. The health effects of extreme temperatures primarily affect vulnerable groups. There is a high need for effective heat protection that stimulates not only the individual people, but also institutions and ministries.

The RKI currently evaluates the heat -related deprivterity. The first weekly report on the topic will be published on July 10, 2025. It is reported that around 15,600 additional deaths in Germany were due to heat foils in the heat summer 2018 and 2019. This shows once again how important it is to be aware of the health risks that are associated with increasing temperatures.

What does the future bring?

like the Environmental Federal Agency , the number of "hot days" and "tropical nights" has been increasing steadily since 2000. Forecasts indicate that this development will continue to stop. Especially in urban areas, the temperatures in the nights are often higher, which is known as a urban heat of heat. This development significantly increases the health burden of the population.

At the regional level, it can be seen that federal states such as Brandenburg and Saxony are increasingly affected by extreme heat. The combination of rising temperatures and the possibility of tropical nights in the inner cities, where heat is stored, leads to a further burden on health in particular older citizens or people with previous illnesses.