KARACHI: Even with a drop of at least 10 degrees Celsius in hours of daylight warmth in Karachi and the restitution of the cheerful sea breeze on Thursday, at least 100 more patients misery from heatstroke, thirst and diarrhea died at different communal and private hospitals while thousands were still undergoing cure at hospital wards and heatstroke camps in the city.
The fatality toll in the last six days surpassed the 1,050 number on Thursday but the city nonstop to face a surprise load shedding, power breakdowns and water shortages, forcing the citizens to acquire to the streets to gripe next to the government and public utilities. Mutually public and private hospitals witnessed outsized figure of diarrhea and gastroenteritis patients.
Hospital officials and doctors feared a escaping of water-borne diseases, opinion people to utilize boiled water if feasible or alternative to other usual and current methods of water sanitization for drinking purposes.
Hundreds of patients were still admitted to at least 10 heatstroke centers of Sindh Rangers, four of the armed forces and one of the Pakistan fleet but no authentic numeral of patients admitted, treated and deaths had been provided by the armed forces to the media throughout the last six days.
At least 18 more patients admitted to different wards of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) died of heatstroke and interrelated illness on Thursday, Joint Executive Director, JPMC, Dr. Seemi Jamali, said. On the other hand, she said a radical fall in heatstroke patients was observed on the sixth day owing to modify in climate, drop in morning temperature and refurbishment of chilly wind.
She, still, claimed that thousands of patients were being treated at the hospital. The hospital issued an application on Thursday noon for condition of frost to cool down the body temperature of patients.
The position at the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK), the second leading hospital of the province, also enhanced where the entirety death toll reached 131 on Thursday. The health competence also witnessed a quick turn down in the number of heatstroke patients.
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Medical Superintendent CHK Prof. Saeed Qureshi said hundreds of patients were still admitted to different wards of the hospital, while dozens were in serious condition. He hoped that the revolutionize in weather environment would cut the number of sufferers.
Roughly one dozen patients admitted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) and a KMC-run hospital gone their lives due to complications of heatstroke, dehydration and diarrhea.The casualty toll at the KMC-run hospital has reached 214 during the last six days, Senior Director Health of KMC Dr. Salma Kauser said.
Urban Commissioner Samiuddin Siddiqui believed that during the last six days, the KMC-run hospitals received around 40,000 heatstroke and abdominal disease patients, of which 214 dead during treatment while thousands were still undergoing treatment at different hospitals and over 42 heatstroke centers recognized in the city.
There were also news of at least 50 deaths at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) and the National Institute of Child Health (NICH). Regardless of affirmation of deaths of aged people and kids, administrations of both the hospitals refused to give any information of heatstroke patients and losses.
The Aga Khan Hospital management claimed that around 31 patients had died in four days whereas a overall of 311 patients affliction from heatstroke and allied complications had been admitted .At least 71 patients have died at the Liaquat National Hospital (LNH), its presenter Anjum Rizvi claimed.
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He said Thursday was a far healthier day when only a couple of patients had died due to heatstroke and dehydration while the hospital also acknowledged minor number of patients on Thursday.
The Indus Hospital also claimed that only four deaths were reported on Thursday while 2,100 patients were brought to the health facility, of which 45 had died while 56 were still at treatment stage.
The state at the three centers of Ziauddin Hospital, plus North Nazimabad, Clifton and Keamari, was also the matching where a total of 61 patients died during treatment, a narrator for the hospital said.
He assumed that the hospital received about 1,800 patients of heatstroke and further related illnesses of which 617 were still admitted in wards while over 1,100 were discharged after required treatment.
41 patients had died at the Qatar Hospital in Orangi Town during the last six days, its Medical Superintendent Dr. Khalid Masood said, claim that only one patient had died on Thursday while the digits of patients had also reduced.
Dozens of deaths were also reported from diverse public and classified hospitals in Korangi, Liaquatabad, New Karachi, North Nazimabad, Malir, Keamari, Garden and other region. According to an guess, the sum death toll might be much higher than 1,100, officials said.
