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Edhi claims heat-wave calimed over 65 lives in Karachi!

KARACHI: Edhi Foundation’s Faisal Edhi has claimed on Monday that over sixty-five people died due to heatstroke during the last three days in different parts of the Metropolis.

Substantiating his claim Faisal Edhi told that in the last 72-hours morgues of Edhi Foundation (situated at Korangi and Sohrab Goth) had received over sixty-five bodies of heat-wave victims.

Providing details, Faisal Edhi said that most of those who died from heatstroke lived in the Landhi and Korangi. According to him, the youngest victim was six-years-old while the oldest one was 78.

It is pertinent to mention here that most of the people do not know that due to exposure to extensive heat blood clots form that fatally blocks the veins. 

Relevant Piece:  Neem tree shadow is the best to beat heat wave: Dr. Behrouz Hashim. John Hopkins graduate Dr. Behrouz Hashim, speaking about the innumerable benefits of trees informed that Neem trees were the best to escape from the heat wave. He went on to tell that temperature in Neem’s shadow is ten degrees lower than the surroundings. Under other trees, the temperature is only three to four degrees lower.

Dr. said that if the temperature soars to 47 degrees C it will be only 37 degrees under the Neem tree and thus heat stroke can’t affect you. He further told that one suffers from three problems if  exposed to temperature over 37 degrees: 

i) Dehydration that means the release of liquid from the body in the form of sweat;

ii) Multi-functional salts in blood like sodium, potassium, and chloride are also drained from the body;

iii) And the worst of all our blood gets thicker and turns into clots.

He told that those clots, traveling through veins, reach the brain. As a result, the flow of blood stops and one experience heat stroke. It can affect either right or left side of the body: “If someone, suffering from heatstroke, falls down or gets unconscious, he must be provided water within an hour; his body should be placed under the shadow and cooled down”.

Warning against plantation of Conocarpus trees Dr. Behrouz Hashim said: “I would never recommend planting of Conocarpus. In the forestry lexicology, it is called Ethiopia’s Evil Tree”.

He told that i) Conocarpus does not need much water to grow; ii) Conocarpus grows better on saline terrain; iii) Conocarpus grows very fast. Dr. further went on to warn that a fungus called aflatoxin grows beneath its leaves. It causes liver cancer called hepatoma: “Aflatoxin also aggravates asthma that has increased 16% since the introduction of Conocarpus in Pakistan”.

 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.