KARACHI:
As 21 more people succumbed to heat exhaustion, with more than 15 dying today (Monday) due to the heat crisis, Prime Minister’s arrival at Karachi caused many ministers and leaders to leap into action.
While they made a dash for different hospitals around the city to meet heatstroke patients, the Sindh Health Department has also, finally, collected and collated the death toll data, according to which 1,213 people have died in the province in nine days due to dehydration and other heat-related complications.
Interestingly, this data was collected within 24 hours. “The health department started collecting the data from private hospitals on Saturday,” said Hasan Murad Shah, the health department’s director general.
