Reham visits JPMC to meet heatstroke patients but finds none

Karachi
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan’s wife Reham Khan visited the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on Saturday to meet the patients who had suffered a heatstroke during the recent hot weather in the Karachi.
However, JPMC sources said she was unable to meet any heatstroke patient as all of them had been discharged from the hospital.
They added that no new heatstroke patient had been admitted to the hospital after the heatwave subsided in the city.
Reham visited some patients in the surgical ward and appreciated the hospital staff’s performance.
The JPMC staff told Reham that the hospital’s emergency ward had the capacity to accommodate 100 patients and recently, over 10,000 heatstroke patients had been treated there.
Reham said nobody was willing to accept the responsibility for the heatstroke deaths, which were caused by the negligence and insensitivity of the ruler.
She said the authorities would only understand the sufferings of the masses if they left air-conditioned rooms.
Over 65,000 people suffered a heatstroke during the two-week heatwave that started from June 19.
Provincial government sources said around 1,300 people had died of heat-related complications during that period.