Pakistan HIV Cases: Pakistan A secret investigation conducted in a government hospital has revealed serious violations related to medical security. According to the report, due to unsafe injection practice, many children are at risk of fatal infections including HIV.
This investigation was done through a secret video recording, in which the activities inside THQ Hospital Taunsa were recorded for 32 hours. According to BBC, this footage showed repeated violations of basic hygiene rules.
HIV was found in how many children?
According to the data collected in the investigation, at least 331 children were found HIV positive in Taunsa between November 2024 and October 2025. Analysis of the data also revealed that in most cases the infection did not spread from mother to child. In the investigation of 97 families, only four mothers were found HIV positive. The reports of Mohammed and Asma’s mother came back negative, further strengthening the suspicion that unsafe medical practices were the cause of the infection.
What was happening in the hospital?
According to the report, health workers were seen using the same syringe on multiple patients. Apart from this, medicine was being taken out from the same multi-dose vial and given to different children, due to which the risk of infection increased significantly.
At the center of this whole matter is eight-year-old Mohammad Amin, who died soon after testing HIV positive. His mother told that in his last days he was suffering from high fever and unbearable pain. After Mohammad was found infected, his sister Asma was also found HIV positive. The family believes that both the children got this infection due to unsafe injections given during treatment in the hospital.
How did the incident unfold?
According to an HT report, the issue first gained attention when local doctor Dr Gul Qaisrani noticed an unusual increase in HIV cases among children in late 2024. He said that almost all of the 65 to 70 affected children were earlier treated at THQ Taunsa Hospital. The report said that in more than half of the cases, contaminated needles were considered the most likely cause of infection.
What did the doctors say about this action?
When this footage was shown to the new medical superintendent of the hospital, Dr Qasim Buzdar, he refused to accept its authenticity. He said that this video may be from before his tenure or it may have been prepared in a wrong way. He also said that the hospital is safe for children.
In one case, a nurse was seen taking the remaining liquid from a used syringe and giving it to a colleague for re-use, which experts called a serious violation of safety rules. The footage also showed that staff were giving injections without gloves, used needles were being left in the open and medical waste was not being disposed of properly.
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