KARACHI: Spouse of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, Reham Khan on Saturday visited Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) Karachi to meet heat-wave affectees; however, there were no heatstroke patient admitted in the hospital.
Sources at JPMC confirmed that there was no heatstroke patient in the hospital when Reham Khan visited it. All heatstroke patients had already been discharged from the hospital and following change in the weather which has turned pleasant there was no admission of any new heat stroke patient.
Reham; however, visited some patients in the surgical ward. She appreciated the hospital staff's performance and said medical staff had taken good care of the heatstroke patients.
The hospital staff told Reham that the emergency ward has a capacity of 100 patients, while in recent past more than 10,000 heatstroke patients were treated in the ward.
She said nobody is willing to accept responsibility for heatstroke deaths, adding these deaths resulted due insensitivity of rulers.
She said the authorities will only feel the sufferings of the masses if they come out of their air-conditioned rooms.
More than 65,000 people suffered heatstroke during the two-week heat wave, which started from 19th June. According to provincial governmental sources about 1,300 had been died from heat-stroke so far.
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