149 People dead in Karachi due to heat wave

[My-Analogous]

KARACHI: Karachi experiences one of its hottest nights with temperature 38 C at 9 pm

The heat wave has reportedly claimed several lives in Karachi.

According to details, around 149 persons have died in heat wave from Karachi alone — 55 at Jinnah Hospital; 20 at Abbasi Shaheed, 9 at Lyari General & 2 at other hospital during last two days. The scorching heat has severely affected the routine life.

Today was the longest day of the year. It is known as summer solstice in technical parlance — falls on June 21 every year. The day was began at 5.42am (sunrise) and end at 7.25pm (sunset). The temperature was recorded at 43 degree centigrade through the day in Karachi.

Yesterday was the hottest day of 2015 with temperatures in some parts of Sindh nearing 50 degrees Celsius.

The Met office has predicted rain on coming Tuesday and Wednesday in Karachi.

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I request Govt to nuke us and it will end our suffering No Gas, No Water, No Electricity. WHAT THE FCK GOVT. IS DOING?


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[My-Analogous]

By the way K Electric is own by Zardari close relative

 

[Falcon29]

RIP. Indeed this is sad problem when there is lack of electricity no heat/conditon can be provided. In Gaza we had people freeze to death this winter , electricity/blankets would help. In the summer it can get very hot. And most of Gaza's water is contamited. Government can't do anything as there is a siege in place and only Israel decides what amount of electieicity or water can get in.

In Pakistans case, it is probably infrastructure budget issues? This is wild temperatures though too. How does Pakistan supply electricity through nuclear reactors or...? Anyways, if these issues aren't solved it will drive some people crazy and sadly some commit suicide(all those water electricity issues but also unemployement)..

 

[My-Analogous]

Now it turns into 150 RIP to these peoples

RIP. Indeed this is sad problem when there is lack of electricity no heat/conditon can be provided. In Gaza we had people freeze to death this winter , electricity/blankets would help. In the summer it can get very hot. And most of Gaza's water is contamited. Government can't do anything as there is a siege in place and only Israel decides what amount of electieicity or water can get in.

In Pakistans case, it is probably infrastructure budget issues? This is wild temperatures though too. How does Pakistan supply electricity through nuclear reactors or...? Anyways, if these issues aren't solved it will drive some people crazy and sadly some commit suicide(all those water electricity issues but also unemployement)..

It is a management fault and we have Isreali Govt running Karachi and whole Sindh

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Bad time for Ramadan - the government and local clerics should strongly advise people to not fast when the heat index goes above a certain level. Going without food and water for the majority of the day with these kinds of heat levels is just madness.

 

[Falcon29]

Bad time for Ramadan - the government and local clerics should strongly advise people to not fast when the heat index goes above a certain level. Going without food and water for the majority of the day with these kinds of heat levels is just madness.

Unless everyone has air conditioned homes(which Im guessing is minority) then clerics should make fatwa that people can break their fast today but fast what they missed after eid.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Unless everyone has air conditioned homes(which Im guessing is minority) then clerics should make fatwa that people can break their fast today but fast what they missed after eid.

It's not just about having air conditioned homes, it's also about the work and commuting conditions faced by people.

I really have to wonder how many of those who died could have been saved had they not been fasting and/or the Sindh & Karachi government could have taken a little initiative by setting up simple water stations to provide free water to passersby and encouraging local restaurants/cafes to join in by doing the same outside their businesses. This isn't rocket science.

 

[Lord ZeN]

Rest In Peace It's indeed tragic. May almighty give family members of the deceased enough strength to bear this loss.

 

[Basel]

RIP. Indeed this is sad problem when there is lack of electricity no heat/conditon can be provided. In Gaza we had people freeze to death this winter , electricity/blankets would help. In the summer it can get very hot. And most of Gaza's water is contamited. Government can't do anything as there is a siege in place and only Israel decides what amount of electieicity or water can get in.

In Pakistans case, it is probably infrastructure budget issues? This is wild temperatures though too. How does Pakistan supply electricity through nuclear reactors or...? Anyways, if these issues aren't solved it will drive some people crazy and sadly some commit suicide(all those water electricity issues but also unemployement)..

Dear it is so hot in Karachi that even when electricity is available fans through hot air, it is also Ramadan so people can't drink cold drinks which can help saving lives as main cause death is dehydration here.

Due to electricity shortage water is also very short, which was short in normal times. Usually nights of summer are much better due to cool breeze of the sea but its still hot air at nights too.

 

[Kolachi Punjabi]

If the government cared they would induced artificial rain like many other countries to give some respite from the heat and break the years long drought which is gonna get worse according to NASA

But alas, as they the saying goes 'nobody owns Karachi'

Dear it is so hot in Karachi that even when electricity is available fans through hot air, it is also Ramadan so people can't drink cold drinks which can help saving lives as main cause death is dehydration here.

Due to electricity shortage water is also very short, which was short in normal times. Usually nights of summer are much better due to cool breeze of the sea but its still hot air at nights too.

Even the air conditioners are malfunctioning under so much heat

 

[kakashi]

A few weeks back some pakistanis made fun of Indians when people in Ap and tg were dead due to hea wave... R.I.P may there souls find peace in god's abode..

 

[Indus Falcon]

RIP. Indeed this is sad problem when there is lack of electricity no heat/conditon can be provided. In Gaza we had people freeze to death this winter , electricity/blankets would help. In the summer it can get very hot. And most of Gaza's water is contamited. Government can't do anything as there is a siege in place and only Israel decides what amount of electieicity or water can get in.

In Pakistans case, it is probably infrastructure budget issues? This is wild temperatures though too. How does Pakistan supply electricity through nuclear reactors or...? Anyways, if these issues aren't solved it will drive some people crazy and sadly some commit suicide(all those water electricity issues but also unemployement)..

In Pakistan's case, it is a simple case of unadulterated, pure "A" Grade, corruption.

 

[Devil Soul]

Heatwave devastates Karachi, other parts of Sindh; at least 136 dead
HASAN MANSOOR — PUBLISHED 13 minutes ago
Ambulances bringing bodies of people who died because of heatstroke and dehydration pictured outside the Edhi morgue in Karachi on Sunday.—Online
KARACHI: Despite the Met office’s academic conclusion about Karachi’s weather sliding down a notch, a devastating heatwave gripping Sindh for several days has taken a toll of at least 136 people in the province — 132 only in the metropolis. Most of them were pronounced dead at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), officials said on Sunday.

They said 85 of the people who had suffered heatstroke were either brought dead or died in JPMC. Thirty people died in the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) on Saturday night and Sunday, nine in Lyari General Hospital and six in the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK).

“Some 85 people have died since late Saturday night,” Dr Seemin Jamali, joint executive director of JPMC, told Dawn.

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Most of them were men aged 50 or more.

“Thirty people were brought dead while another 55, who were in critical condition, died in the hospital during treatment,” Dr Jamali said, adding that severe heat was to blame for all the deaths — the alarming number of deaths has no precedent in the country’s recent history.

“They were brought to the hospital unconscious, suffering from high grade fever with pulse hardly visible and blood pressure barely noticeable,” said the JPMC official.

Many patients told their doctors that they had collapsed suddenly during the sizzling day and suffered extreme breathing problem.

The officials said the first patient of heatstroke was brought to JPMC at around 10pm on Saturday and by the filing of this report the number of such patients almost touched 100.

“The situation is that we are still receiving patients suffering from heatstroke,” said an official at JPMC.

KARACHI: Relatives mourn the death of a heatstroke victim at an Edhi morgue on Sunday.—AFP
Dr Salma Kauser, senior director (medical and health) at the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, which oversees all KMC hospitals, said 20 people died in ASH on Sunday. Seven people were brought dead on late Saturday late and the cause of death was ascertained hours later.

Of the 20 people, 13 were brought dead to the ASH and seven died during treatment, said Dr Kauser.

Six women and five children were among the dead.

She said that more than 100 people were under treatment in various hospitals run by the KMC.

Nine people died because of sunstroke in Lyari General Hospital, six in Civil Hospital and two in KPT Hospital.

Sindh health secretary Saeed Ahmed Mangnejo said two deaths each were reported from Jacobabad and Larkana.

Dr Hasan Murad Shah, director general health, said that since it was Sunday the figures, if any, of the heatstroke patients might be landing his office on Monday.

Saturday was the hottest day of this year’s summer in Karachi, where the mercury had shot to 45 degree Celsius. The maximum temperature of 48 degree Celsius was recorded in three districts of Sindh — Jacobabad, Larkana and Sukkur — on Saturday, which slid down to 41 on Sunday.

The officials said the city would not see any let-up on Monday when temperatures are expected to go up to 44 degree Celsius.

The highest temperature Karachi ever experienced was 48 degree Celsius on May 9, 1938.

“There might be some patients of heatstroke at some private hospitals, but no major hospitals in Nawabshah, Sukkur, Khairpur, Ghotki, Shikarpur, Nausheroferoze, Qambar and Kashmore have reported any such deaths,” Dr Shah said.

Similarly, he said, no deaths or heat-related incidents had been reported from central and southern parts of Sindh.

Most of the people died belonged to poor neighbourhoods, lived in small houses and worked on daily wages.

Officials at the Edhi Foundation said they had expedited the process of burying bodies as the number of new bodies arriving in their morgue had suddenly swollen and also because the temperatures were too high for the cooling facility.

Early this month, 17 people died because of heatstroke in Sehwan during the Urs of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar.

Published in Dawn, June 22nd, 2015

 

[my2cents]

Rains are on the way and I hope it will cool down a bit.

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

RIP...
Don't do fast in heat wave. You have brain, use it.
You didn't drink , didn't eat, and in such heat wave what do you expect? All is well!!? No , you are dingbat.