KARACHI, Oct 5: Expressing his concern over the growing traffic jams in the city, renowned social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi has apprehended that with the beginning of the holy month of Ramazan, the problem would become even more serious.

In his statement issued by the Edhi Foundation on Wednesday, Maulana Edhi recalled that in the previous Ramazan, more than 120 heart patients had succumbed because they could not reach the destined hospitals promptly due to traffic jams. The ambulances by which they were being taken to hospitals got stranded in the deluge of vehicles, he added.

On an average, 30 persons die and 100 suffer injuries in different road accidents every day, according to him. “If this situation continues, Pakistan will rank number one in the fatalities in road accidents,” he apprehended.

The Founder of the Edhi Foundation said that traffic police and dug up roads were not responsible for traffic jams, but it was the public which took pride in violating traffic rules and thus added to traffic mess.

He observed that even educated people, let alone illiterate drivers, would also resort to violating traffic rules.

He pointed out that due to frequent traffic jams, fuel worth millions of rupees was going waste.