KARACHI, Pakistan: The Sindh government has directed to close all the educational institutions and offices as the devastating heatwave has claimed over 500 lives across the province in the last four days.
“We are closing offices, schools and colleges not just in Karachi but throughout Sindh,” the Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said in the Sindh assembly on Tuesday in an apparent measure to save people from the intense heat.
The Sindh chief minister however said that essential services department including hospitals and heatstroke relief centers will work round the clock to help patients of heatstroke.
Shah said that steps are being taken to provide immediate treatment to the people affected from intense heat and for the purpose heatstroke relief centers have been established all over the city where patients are being treated on priority basis.
The chief minister said that Pakistan army and Rangers are also taking steps in this regard to provide help to the people.
Qaim Ali Shah said that continuous outages of electricity have also worsened the situation and we are looking in to the matter to resolve this issue. He said that directives were issued to K-Electric last night to restore electricity while the Federal government is also being approached in this regard as electricity is a Federal subject.
More than 500 persons have lost their lives across the Sindh province especially in Karachi due to heatstroke since Saturday.
The Sindh government has declared emergency in all the hospitals of the province and has directed the administration to ensure prompt availability of doctors, paramedical staff and necessary medicines to provide immediate treatment to the heatstroke patients.
