KARACHI: At least five students of Government Boys Primary School in Sabu Goth (Pipri) fainted on Saturday due to high temperature and suffocation, said a teacher of the school. “There was no electricity or water supply arrangement at the school for last 15 years since it was established,” she lamented. Those who fainted include Sanam, Hakeema, Sugra, Bisma and Ishque after which they were shifted to the nearby health facility for first aid. He said the school also lacked washrooms and the children had no option but to go outside at some isolated site to extreme embarrassment and security threat to these toddlers along with unhygienic environment. “What could be expected from the students and the teachers to deliver in such a situation,” he questioned. Some parents from Pipri and Shah Town areas — between the National Highway and Pakistan Steel- narrated the similiar stories of nine other government schools there. They cautioned that during this heatwave they would left with no option but to keep their children away from the educational activities for their safety. Sources said that around ten government schools in the vicinity of Pakistan Steel Mills – Pipri and Shah Town areas – are without electricity connection and drinking water, and it has become very difficult for the students and the teachers to pass the academic hours due to scorching heat; with forecast of unaffordable rise in the mercury in the coming days. The parents have appealed to the government to provide electricity and drinking water on emergency basis to government schools in these old localities to save the lives of their children and the teachers along with construction of washrooms and compound walls to ensure better academic environment.