Extreme heat is making pregnancy and childbirth more dangerous, health experts warn. Nearly three in four doctors, midwives and other maternal health workers say that heat-related cases or complications have increased over the past five years, according to a survey commissioned by global health foundation Wellcome.
Simon Stiell, the head of the UN’s climate body, cited the findings today, 5 October, at the pre-COP summit in Nadi, Fiji, as he warned about the less obvious dangers of extreme heat.
