Pakistan is one of the countries in Asia that is currently suffering from an extreme heat wave, with temperatures above 50 degrees. The city of Jacobabad is sometimes described as the hottest in the country, and those who can escape the city during the hottest period. But not everyone has the opportunity to do so. The city’s bricklayers can not quit their jobs, even when there is a heat wave. – They are affected by the heat, but we pressure them to continue working. And they have to work to make money, they have no choice, says supervisor Muhammed Ramzan. Rasheed Rind has worked at the brickyard since he was a child. – The heat makes us vomit sometimes, he says. Others also suffer from the heat. At a clinic, 12-year-old Saed is being cared for, who collapsed on the way home from school – see more in the player above.
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Here the bricklayers are forced to work in 50-degree heat: “Vomited”
