Ahead of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, which is scheduled to be held in Egypt subsequent week , medical journal The Lancet launched a report, The Lancet Countdown on well being and local weather change: well being on the mercy of fossil fuels An India factsheet primarily based on the report, reveals alarming numbers: heat-related deaths elevated by 55% during the last 20-odd years, the variety of months appropriate for dengue transmission has been rising, reaching 5.6 months every year, and in 2020, over 330,000 folks died in India as a consequence of publicity to particulate matter from fossil gasoline combustion. And these are solely among the well being impacts caused by local weather change. 

For years now, consultants have been warning of what local weather occasions can do to illness patterns, to meals safety and diet ranges, to maternal and baby well being and to psychological well being too. India is already burdened with communicable illnesses, the growing incidence of non-communicable illnesses, and now faces the challenges of local weather change to public well being in a healthcare system that has already seen its limits stretched throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. So how precisely do elevated warming and different local weather change results play out on our well being? How is our nation positioned to satisfy these challenges? And what might be achieved, at a coverage and private stage to assist cut back the influence of local weather change on our well being?

Guest: Poornima Prabhakaran, Director , Centre for Environmental Health at Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)

Host: Zubeda Hamid

Edited by Sharmada Venkatasubramanian

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