Heat Related deaths rose to 75, while 200 fainted

MULTAN, May 27th:May's brutal heatwave may have killed 75 People in Punjab - and more than 200 people fainted - an ‘‘invisible tragedy’’ said the Ministry of Health Punjab .A Nishtar Medical College analysis of the event in this week- when temperatures rose above 48 to 50 degrees for three consecutive days - indicates the heatwave claimed scores of lives across South Punjab and Sindh.The majority of victims were heat-stricken elderly and chronically sick people who died prematurely,due to suffocation , often live in their airless homes or suddenly of heart failure. Vice Chancellor of Bahauddin Zikiriya University Prof Dr.Zafarullah Khan said that researchers should launch separately investigations into how to reduce heat-related deaths, after the three-day heatwave overloaded the emergency wards of hospitals in South Punjab. health system and filled to capacity the emergency.Provincial Health Coordinator Shaikh Tariq Rasheed said that at least 70 to 80 persons have so far been died of heat strike in Punjab province in last Four days(96 hours) as revealed by the reports received from different hospitals. According to break-up of May 26 and 27, Eight Persons died in Sahiwal district Six of them identified as Sharian, Aisha, Abdul Ghani, Manzooran, Misbah(20) and Muneer Ahmed. Three in Okara (Bilquees, Nawad din and Bashir Ahmed), Three in Vehari(Faiz Muhammad, Allah Bakhshai, Nazir Ahmed) Two each in Sargodha, Chhavarian, Rahimyarkhan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh,Burewala, Gujrat, Baddu Malhi, and Chichawatni, One each in Jehanian, Seetpur, Khanewal, Head Rajkan, Channi-Goth, Four in Bahawalnagar, and another 34 died on May 24 and 25.Dr. Waseem Hashmi District Emergency Officer Multan said," we are shifting 30 to 35 heat stricken people to emergency daily but we are not aware of that how many have so far been died.

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