Death toll from deadly heatwave crosses 700 in Pakistan

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They are blaming that, the cause of heatwave in Sindh is , India.

Hot air from Rajasthan power plants may have fanned Karachi heatwave


ISLAMABAD: Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan has said that the coal-powered plants in Rajasthan, India, could have contributed to the deadly Karachi heat wave.

“Trans-boundary pollution is a worldwide concern. We will investigate,” he said at a National Clean Development Mechanism Programme event here on Wednesday.

In the minister’s view “a fallout effect of the coal-powered plants, in combination with other abnormal climate change events, possibly added to the already warm temperatures” in bordering Sindh.

“If our findings say so, the ministry will raise the concern with the United Nations,” he said, adding that his office was gathering information on the problem.

His remarks caught many by surprise as his own PML-N government has ambitious plans to generate power from coal to overcome the electricity crisis, which is partly blamed for nearly 800 heatstroke deaths in Karachi in the past five days.

“It will be easy to establish which direction the heatwave came from and where it was headed in the next few days,” an official of the Pakistan Environment Protection Agency said. Technology is available for that, according to him.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had to declare a state of emergency as beside the dead, hundreds more victims of the heatwave are being treated in Karachi and other places in Sindh.

It was also the job of the Karachi administration to investigate if the local environmental departments, such as Provincial Disaster Management Authority, were doing their jobs and taken necessary measures to lessen the death toll from the heat wave, said the minister for climate change.

Frequent and long power outages added to the difficulties of the residents in Karachi because they had no means to cool themselves with electric fans and air-conditioners.

A Ministry of Climate Change officer noted that coal-run power plants are the main source of electricity for India’s arid Rajasthan state.

“It has plans to build more such plants to power the industrial growth and other needs of the state,” he said.

However, the minister’s “fallout effect” suspicions did not surprise environment experts. They have been raising concerns about trans-boundary pollution from Indian into Pakistan occasionally.

Director General, Pakistan Meteorological Department, Dr Ghulam Rasul is one such voice who has complained about ‘black carbon’ emitted from steel mills in the north of India that were carried by winds into Pakistan.

“Winds carrying the black soot had been settling and accumulating on the glaciers in Pakistan’s northern areas. The black soot absorbs more heat, causing the glaciers to melt faster,” the expert explained.

Minister Mushahidullah asserts that global warming is not a local problem but a worldwide concern. “It’s not just Pakistan but the entire region will be affected by the melting of glaciers,” he told Wednesday’s event.

The frequent and heavy spell of rainfall in last few months and the heat wave in Karachi only show how seriously the problem of climate change is.

“The rich countries have benefited from industrial development but all at the cost of environment that poor vulnerable countries like Pakistan are now paying. It is imperative that the rich countries spend some of that money to conserve environment and help Pakistan adapt to the altering climate, which it cannot achieve on its own for lack of resources,” the minister said.

Published in Dawn, June 25th, 2015

http://www.dawn.com/news/1190312/ho...power-plants-may-have-fanned-karachi-heatwave

 

[rock127]

I remember reading Paki comments how they were jeering and mocking India when India was seeing heatwave deaths. Shameless freaks.

Yeah... Allah got angry with Unislamic Pakis and punished them.

Now Pakis can laugh as their own people die since over 1000 Pakis dead and no place to keep dead bodies.

Shame on Pakis who mocked Indian death in heat wave.

Over 1,000 killed by Pakistan heat wave: "There is no space left ... to keep the dead bodies"

 

[rock127]

Yes that is why people are also using solar as a backup for UPS charging. Which can charge it on solar at least during the day time.

How many hours do you get electricity daily? How many hours do a inverter gives power?

You are living in a fools paradise called Pakistan and you cant deny your own Paki sources telling the sad story that your nation is failing in basic things and you are increasing your nuclear arsenal.

Denial mode is just another synonym for Pakistan in addition to Terrorism.

Posts Tagged Electricity load shedding Pakistan

Winter 2015 have been worse in terms of load shedding. There have been massive load shedding, despite the fact that winters have off-peak demand for electricity. And despite all those pre-election claims of PML-N (Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz) about ending the load shedding, the situation just gone worse in winters. We witnessed load shedding of 8 to 14 hours and sometime worse.

Pakistan's Power Shortage Problem Is Country's Biggest Threat

All are victims of Pakistan's biggest problem, one that recently brought down a government – not the U.S. drone war in its backyard, not its permanent confrontation with India, but its inability to generate enough electricity. Pakistan, nuclear-armed, can't deliver a reliable power supply to its 180 million citizens.

"Power, power, power is the problem. It's power at home, in the workplace, on the streets," said Rizwana Kauser, head nurse at the hospital in the city of Gujar Khan, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) from the capital, Islamabad.

@Blackwater : One of your fav subject is here.

 

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Heat stroke happens when you do not drink enough water (dehydration)/insensible water loss. Deplete intra-vascular volume leads to circulatory collapse and death in extreme case.

Excessive Heat is though considered as the primary reason for heat stroke as person can be adequately hydrated (euvolemic) but in my experience the real villain is dehydration which make things worse when hyperthermia starts flaunting with central nervous system. Almost all of the Patients I have seen had dramatically low CVP and borderline hypernatremia (acute dehydration). In heat stroke people can present with varying symptoms from dizziness, unconsciousness to uncontrolled generalized tonic-clonic seizure leading to airway obstruction/hypoxia/anoxia and death.

Avoid direct sunlight, wear hat, rest a lot, avoid strenuous physical activity under the sun, look for shade, drink a lot of water, do not skip breakfast and launch, wear light colored easy clothes.

Deaths due to heat stroke in Pakistan and India tells a worrying situation of poor socio-economical condition of people who can not even afford very simple dos and don'ts I have described above or have no other option to avoid don'ts.

We in hospitals made sure ABC's are intact/established and temperature brought down aggressively. I have seen no anti-convulsant working on seizures due to heat stroke but pouring cold water did. Early intervention and good GCS sore on presentation helps fast recovery, prognosis is not good if signs of stupor and loss of consciousness starts showing up.