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CASES of heatstroke have recently become quite common in Karachi, as well as in the rest of Sindh, owing to the rising temperature. The sad thing is that even though it can be treated easily, people do not take proper measures to prevent and cure it.
It is simply due to dehydration. A person suffering from a heat stroke should be given water, better if water is mixed with oral re-hydrating salt (ORS), to drink. Water and ice should be applied on their body, especially the head and the armpits.
Letting the person’s body cool down and hydrate can easily avert any major threat.
Ali Shah Quddus
Karachi
Published in Dawn, May 3rd, 2016
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May 03, 2016 07:10pm
To combat the hot weather people need more and more water for drinking, for cooking, for bathing, for sprinkling indoors and outdoors etc but the sources of supply are drying up. The water supply chain for Karachi is: Dams – Kotri barrage – Keenjhar lake – Karachi. The last increase in supplies for Sindh was made with commissioning of Tarbela dam (from 35.6 maf to 44.5 maf), there has been no increase in 40 years and there are no signs of any further increase. How many years before any sense prevails.
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