From the Philippines to Mali, countries struggle to count heat deaths

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Heat-related deaths are rising amid climate change, but many countries struggle to collect the data.

Labour union activist Lucas Ortega said such figures do not reflect the risk of heat stress workers face.“We know we have thousands of delivery riders, construction and maintenance workers, street cleaners and workers from different industries,” said Ortega, a spokesperson for the Center of United and Progressive Workers in the Philippines.“But we don’t know how many of them were exposed to extreme heat,” he said.

In the Philippines, where a two-week heatwave in April forced schools to shut, seven heat-related deaths and 77 heat-related illnesses were reported from January to May this year, according to health ministry data. Image: ILO Asia-Pacific, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Flickr.

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