Devastating heat waves have claimed at least 140 lives in Sindh province of Pakistan.
Most of them lost lives in Karachi, the provincial capital and the largest city in Pakistan, where the temperature had reached to 44.8 degrees Celsius on Saturday. According to CNN, this is the highest temperature recorded in the country in past 15 years.
Doctors at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) in Karachi say that because of the heat strokes 85 people were brought in either dead or died in the hospital.
“Thirty people were brought dead while another 55, who were in critical condition, died in the hospital during treatment,” Dr Seemin Jamali, joint executive director of JPMC, told Pakistan’s Dawn news agency.
Jamali says that the patients were brought into the hospital with severe fever and in unconscious condition.
“They were brought to the hospital unconscious, suffering from high grade fever with pulse hardly visible and blood pressure barely noticeable,” the official is further quoted by Dawn.
Dozens of others were announced dead at other hospitals in the province.
As the heat waves will continue for the coming few days and doctors at JPMC say that more patients are coming in, the death toll is feared to rise.
LINK: https://www.ansarpress.com/english/3877