LAHORE:
Hundreds of citizens suffering from heat blows have been admitted in hospitals in Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Rawalpindi, Nareowal and South Punjab in recent days.
Hospital officials said they faced an increase in the number of patients with heat stroke both in outpatient departments and emergency rooms due to the prevailing hard climate.
Health experts advised the public to stay at home during the noon and use maximum water to avoid heat stroke.
A worse phase is experienced to increase the temperature in the region during the current summer season.
Pakistan is considered the fifth worst of the worst climatic changes in the country and many cities, including the main urban centers of Punjab, are in extremely hot climates.
As a result, hospitals in populated districts are struggling to treat a growing number of patients affected by heat stroke.
The authorities had already issued an alert about the health risks that raise the extremely hot weather that will continue in the province.
The situation is becoming crucial in the big cities of Punjab, including Lahore, where government and private hospitals, as well as clinics receive patients with heat blow daily.
In addition to the elderly and children who go to school, a large number of patients traveling in local public transport and about
The hospitals throughout the province had been alerted by the adverse effects of the warm climate by the Punjab health authorities following the instructions on these motorcycles for work. Consideration of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority.
In recent years, a large number of heat stroke cases had been recorded in hospitals in southern Punjab, so the government has focused on preparations for the season in the region.
The Allama Iqbal teaching hospital in Dera Ghazi Khan has been declared a provincial stroke management center.
According to a spokesman for the Department of Health of Punjab, the head of the Department of Nephrology of the Institute of Medical Sciences Services, Professor Qash Bashir, visited the center. Three packages of the injections required to the Cerebrovascular Accident Management Center have been sent.
The spokesman, Sayed Hamad Raza said: “All teaching hospitals have made the best arrangements to deal with patients with heat blows and the training of relevant medical care personnel was completed to equip them with the necessary treatment facilities.”
He said that a sufficient amount of medications had been sent to all hospitals to treat patients with heat stroke.
Former medical superintendent of the Sirga Ganga Ram, Dr. Maqsood Ahmad Sheikh, “the temperature of the brain increases due to the heat blow and there is the risk of damage to the brain. The elderly and children have a higher risk of heat stroke.”
He said people should avoid going outdoors and consuming maximum water and minerals during the current season.
Meanwhile, the Department of Meteorology predicted that the provincial capital, together with most of the plains throughout the country, would continue to experience an intense heat wave in the next two or three days.
Diurnal temperatures in the central and upper punjab are expected to remain 5 ° C at 7 ° C above normal. South Punjab can see temperatures from 4 ° C to 6 ° C above the seasonal average.
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