An intense heat wave killed more than 120 people over the weekend in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi, officials said on Monday, as the electricity grid crashed during the first days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Pakistan’s largest charity, Edhi Welfare Organization has said that its mortuary has been filled to capacity as a result of heatwave-related deaths. Heat wave in Pakistan’s largest city Karachi and nearby districts of Southern Sindh province has killed at least 120 people, Pakistan’s health officials have said.
The southern port city of Karachi saw temperatures reach as high as 45 degrees Celsius on Saturday, just short of an all-time high of 47C in June 1979. Dr Seemin Jamali, the head of the emergency department confirmed more than 100 people had died at the hospital. "They all died of heat stroke," she said.
Pakistan's Meteorological Department said temperatures would likely subside in the coming days, but doctors have advised avoiding exposure to the sun and wearing light cotton clothes.
Electricity cuts in turn crippled their water supply system, hampering the pumping of millions of gallons of water to consumers, Their Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif has however warned electric supply companies that he would not tolerate power outages especially doing this period of Ramadan.
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