Patient advocates want heat recorded as cause of death

By with∅ut-me 15.08.2026 at 06:35 Uhr Welfare & Poverty Health Policy Climate Change
TL;DR AI-generated Patient advocates are calling for heat to be recorded as a cause of death on death certificates. The German Foundation for Patient Protection wants to make the consequences of climate change visible and demands the specification of the place of death.

Source: tagesschau.de

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