The heat wave in Karachi, Pakistan has already claimed 800 lives Wednesday and with frequent power outages around the city, the situation is about to get worse.
Bodies are filling up the morgues to capacity, so some of the dead are just dumped outside the grounds, according to CNN.
Authorities project that the death toll will still rise if the heat doesn't let up. Thousands are already in hospitals for treatment against dehydration, heatstroke and other illnesses linked to the heat wave. The ones who usually succumb first are the elderly and the poor.
"We are doing everything that is humanly possible here," said Dr. Seemin Jamali, according to Al Jazeera.
"Until [Tuesday] night, it was unbelievable. We were getting patients coming into the emergency ward every minute," she added. Jamali has been at her shift at a government hospital since Saturday, and she estimates that they have treated over 8,000 patients.
Pakistan is used to the hot weather during this time of the year, but it has been brutal for 2015. The temperature started to heat up last Friday, reaching 44.8 degrees Celsius (112.64 degrees Fahrenheit). It's the highest the country has experienced since the 1990s.
It's even more challenging for the Pakistanis as the heat wave is happening during Ramadan, the time of religious fasting. People have been going without food and drink for hours on end, thus more are becoming dehydrated. The CNN reports, however, that some locals, like the sick and the elderly, are exempted from fasting.
To help the hospitals, army camps have set up relief centers in 10 sites around Karachi, according to Tribune. They have also set up six additional sites in nearby Sindh.
The residents expect the temperature to cool down by the end of the week.
Prior to Pakistan's heat wave, India was also struck with a heat wave that killed thousands of people, as reported earlier on HNGN.
