Patient Protectors Want Heat to Be the Cause of Death
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According to patient protectors and intensive care professionals, the number of heat deaths is massively underestimated. Up to now, heat does not appear as a cause of death on death.
So far, the RKI expects about 12,500 heat-related deaths this summer. An expert assumes that the number is much higher.
Almost 12,500 heat deaths are reported by the Robert Koch Institute for this year. However, these are estimates and statistical calculations. Patient protectors want to change this - and heat is reported as a cause of death on death certificates.
According to calculations by the Robert Koch Institute, the number of heat deaths in Germany has risen to 12,500. An intensive care physician assumes that there are "certainly several thousand more deaths".
The number of heat deaths in Germany could be higher than previously assumed.
How the Robert Koch Institute determines the number of deaths due to heat – and why it could be even higher than previously thought.
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