Heatwave devastates Karachi, other parts of Sindh; at least 136 dead

[ghazi52]

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Sindh heatwave death toll climbs to 830

AFP | HASAN MANSOOR —

A man, who collapsed due to the heat, lies on a stretcher with his belongings of sandals and water bottles, outside Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in Karachi. ─ Reuters

A woman wets her burqa to cool her father's head outside the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in Karachi. ─ Reuters

A patient suffering from a heatstroke receives treatment at a local hospital in Karachi. ─ AP

Family members comfort a woman who lost her husband due to heatstroke in Karachi. ─ AP/File

A policeman sprinkles water on a colleague, who collapsed due to the heat, in a police van outside Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in Karachi. ─

KARACHI: At least 830 people have perished in Sindh since Saturday as the province languishes in the grips of a searing heatwave.

The total death toll at Karachi's Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre has risen to 295 since Saturday. The combined death toll at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and other Karachi Municipal Corporation-run hospitals has peaked at 140. Civil Hospital Karachi has seen 110 dead, while 58 have perished at Liaquat National Hospital.

The Emergency Cardiac Centre in Shah Faisal Colony has seen at least five deaths since Saturday, and Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad and New Karachi have seen 10 and 23 dead respectively.

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[[Bregs]]

This is very unfortunate happenings, nature is coming back to haunt mankind for destroying nature for the sake of development and development alone

 

[VCheng]

This is very unfortunate happenings, nature is coming back to haunt mankind for destroying nature for the sake of development and development alone

I knew India was to blame somehow! We will soon find out that R&AW is operating these powerplants. The bastards!

Hot air from Rajasthan power plants may have fanned Karachi heatwave - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

"Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan has said that the coal-powered plants in Rajasthan, India, could have contributed to the deadly Karachi heat wave."

@levina @Irfan Baloch I demand an explanation and immediate action!

 

[ghazi52]

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Heatwave death toll in Sindh tops 1,000
HASAN MANSOOR — UPDATED about 10 hours ago

Volunteers provide cold water and soft drinks to people affected by the heatwave in Karachi.—AP
KARACHI: While the punishing heatwave gripping Karachi since Saturday showed signs of subsiding, the death toll across Sindh rose to 1,011, with at least 229 fatalities reported on Wednesday by government and private hospitals.

Wednesday’s figures included the five-day tally of 23 deaths reported by a private hospital which had not released it earlier.

Officials said that about 40,000 people had suffered heatstroke and as many as 7,500 of them were treated in Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), where 311 people died.

“More than 1,000 of the 40,000 heatstroke victims have died since Saturday evening, of which 950 deaths were reported in Karachi alone,” said a senior official.

According to the figures collected from various hospitals, of the 950 deaths in Karachi, 729 were recorded in government-run health facilities and 221 in private hospitals.

The officials said the number of patients arriving in hospitals had ‘significantly’ dropped with the weather getting better, yet there were thousands of patients being treated in different health facilities.

The gravity of the situation could be gauged from the fact that only Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and other hospitals run by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation treated 17,382 patients till Wednesday evening. Of them, 207 died since Saturday.

The officials said 15 people died in Hyderabad, two in Naushahro Feroze and five in Badin, bringing the five-day tally to 61 recorded in other districts of Sindh.

Meanwhile, moving scenes were witnessed in hospitals across the city where relatives were seen crying with ambulances arriving one after another.

People, youths in particular, continued to donate medicines, juices and bottled water to patients as well as hospitals.

WEATHER: The hot and humid weather got milder and a change of wind pattern brought some respite from the suffocating heat. After almost a week, the maximum temperature dropped to 37 degrees Celsius on Wednesday. The minimum temperature was 30.5 degrees Celsius, with humidity — a measure of the amount of moisture in the air — 63 per cent.

The Met Office said the maximum temperature was expected to remain between 38 and 40 degrees Celsius on Thursday.

Hyderabad was the hottest place in the province on Wednesday as the maximum temperature was recorded at 42 degrees Celsius there.

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[Irfan Baloch]

I knew India was to blame somehow! We will soon find out that R&AW is operating these powerplants. The bastards!

Hot air from Rajasthan power plants may have fanned Karachi heatwave - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

"Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan has said that the coal-powered plants in Rajasthan, India, could have contributed to the deadly Karachi heat wave."

@levina @Irfan Baloch I demand an explanation and immediate action!

commented by shock on Dawn already
the minister must be very shrewd to understand all the weather pattern and movement of air and atmospheric pressure that caused the movement of those terrorist hot airs flow into Pakistan

 

[VCheng]

commented by shock on Dawn already
the minister must be very shrewd to understand all the weather pattern and movement of air and atmospheric pressure that caused the movement of those terrorist hot airs flow into Pakistan

The only hot air I can observe is emanating from the respected Minister's rear, but as I am being told by a TuTA repeatedly, I know nothing.

Seriously though, the scale and suddenness of this tragedy should be an eye-opener for all of us, and I mean. Time is running out for us to put our house in order. Otherwise, such events will only become more common.

Oh go ahead, call me a miserable Pakistani hating fool and that will negate the reality of my words very well. Or not.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

The only hot air I can observe is emanating from the respected Minister's rear, but as I am being told by a TuTA repeatedly, I know nothing.

Seriously though, the scale and suddenness of this tragedy should be an eye-opener for all of us, and I mean. Time is running out for us to put our house in order. Otherwise, such events will only become more common.

Oh go ahead, call me a miserable Pakistani hating fool and that will negate the reality of my words very well. Or not.

everyday is a new shocker
whenever you talk about people who run the show and blame each other for power outage, water shortage and heatwave.

 

[VCheng]

everyday is a new shocker
whenever you talk about people who run the show and blame each other for power outage, water shortage and heatwave.

.... while the people die and suffer. Modern day Neros in their Rome. What a pity!

 

[saurav]

No. of deaths in Karachi seem to be much higher than rest of Sindh. Almost three times more. I dont think electricity supply to rural areas would be better than Karachi.

In India ( in AP and Telangana), situation was reverse. More people died in rural areas than urban areas.