Deaths caused by heatwave

That the current heatwave in Karachi has claimed as many as 800 lives is a sardonic comment on the fast-growing cosmopolitan city's ability, rather inability, to take on this or similar challenge. What has clearly added to Karachiites woes increased power outages. How ironic, however, it is that the Sindh CM while blaming power cuts for deaths has conceded, albeit reluctantly, his government's responsibility in this regard.
He blamed power cuts for deaths across the province, conceding that 'somewhere negligence has happened." That the heatwave challenge exposed Sindh health department's woeful weaknesses is a fact that has found its best expression in the unprecedentedly high number of deaths. Announcing a public holiday by the Sindh government is too little and too late.