Batswana are having the same bad dream.
In it, the elderly, children, pregnant women, and those with respiratory illnesses are fighting for their lives as the country is being spit-roasted by an exceptionally intense heatwave, with temperatures soaring to perilous levels that exceed 40°C.
Hospital Emergency room nurses are wrestling a wave of patients put to gurneys by heat stroke and heat exhaustion during prolonged exposure to high temperatures.
This is not pure fantasy, something similar has actually been happening for the past few weeks. By the first week of March, Botswana’s Department of Meteorological Services (DMS) issued a chilling warning: “heatwave conditions are likely March 5-12, with daytime temperatures of 36-41 C (97-106 F) expected across much of the country.”
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