A new research has shown that thousand of women in Nigeria India and America may die of heat waves.
The reports put the figures at 204,000.
According to the report, women will bear the brunt of extreme heat as more frequent heat waves on a warming planet pose a growing threat to their work, earnings and lives.
The impacts of rising heat are disproportionately dangerous and costly to women be it at home or on the job, according to a report titled ‘The Scorching Divide’ by the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center (Arsht-Rock).
The U.S.-based nonprofit’s research, which analysed India, Nigeria and the United States, said that extreme heat could kill 204,000 women annually across the three countries in hot years.
The research beams its serachlight on Nigeria where heat worsens symptoms of tropical diseases from malaria to yellow fever, mothers bear the ‘double burden’ of looking after themselves and caring for sick family members, amounting to hours of unpaid work.
The new findings advised that Nigerian doctors, who have to deal with frequent power cuts, are calling for better-ventilated hospitals and say, saying pregnant women should cultivate the habit of going for three hours break to take fresh air during working hours.