New government report finds 78% of weather-related hospitalisations and over 43% of extreme-weather related deaths were due to extreme heat
New government report finds 78% of weather-related hospitalisations and over 43% of extreme weather-related deaths were due to extreme heatExtreme weather is increasingly landing Australians in hospital, with extreme heat accounting for more than three in four weather-related hospitalisations in the past ten years, according to new government data.
The report found in the ten years from 2012–13 to 2021–22 there were 9,119 hospitalisations due to extreme weather-related injuries and of these, the overwhelming majority – 7,104 – were due to extreme heat.It also found 677 deaths in the past decade were associated with extreme weather, which is, on average, 68 deaths per year. Of these, extreme heat accounted for 293 .
Swanston said the report only counted injuries directly related to weather but there are many more injuries indirectly due to extreme weather, for example from road traffic accidents, “so if anything, these data are the starting point for counting extreme weather related injuries”.
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