Heat protection for pregnant women and the elderly: training in Treptow-Köpenick!

Heat protection for pregnant women and the elderly: training in Treptow-Köpenick!

Treptow-Köpenick, Deutschland - On June 4, 2025, the district office Treptow-Köpenick announced important steps to combat the health challenges through summer heat. The aim of taking climate change and its consequences for vulnerable groups is the focus of this initiative. Older people, pregnant women and newborns in particular are affected by the effects of the heat, which is underlined by the current research results of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). According to rki, an increase in heat days in the coming decades that can have a negative impact on health.

In June and July 2025, training courses are therefore carried out to target employees of health services, advisors for pregnant women and breastfeeding, actors from the early aid and midwife network. The training courses that take place in cooperation with the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the agency for ecology and communication Ecolo are the aim of sensitizing these specialists to the problem and promoting preventive measures for heat protection. District City Councilor Carolin Weingart supports this initiative and confirms the request of the heat protection alliance for increased support from the federal and state governments.

challenges and measures

The need for common efforts to cope with the challenges of climate change is undisputed. The RKI has evaluated the heat -related deprivation in recent years and shows that effective heat protection requires a cooperative approach. A close cooperation between different ministries, authorities and institutions is of crucial importance in order to provide reliable information and to establish vaccination programs for heat protection prevention. The initiative in Treptow-Köpenick is therefore an important step in the right direction to protect the health of the particularly endangered groups.