Welfare checks by postal workers and medicine kept cool: Europe warned to prep for future heatwaves

Europe needs to adapt for inevitable future heatwaves by performing welfare checks on the elderly and homeless and keeping medicines cool, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official has warned. File photo: Larry Cummins.

Europe needs to adapt for inevitable future heatwaves by performing welfare checks on the elderly and homeless and keeping medicines cool, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official has warned.

Oliver Schmoll, programme manager at the European Centre for Environment, Climate Change and Health at the WHO, called on authorities to look at “reshaping” its cities to create more shade and to take a multi-agency approach to future heatwaves.