Pakistan: the hospitals that give children HIV
How and why children in Pakistan are attending hospital and becoming HIV positive. Ghazal Abbasi investigates why some hospitals have become risk factors in the spread of disease.
Outbreaks of HIV have become regular occurrences in Pakistan. And too frequently it is the children who suffer. In the city of Taunsa, for example, children have tested positive for HIV while their parents have not. So what鈥檚 been going on? In Assignment Ghazal Abbasi investigates what and who is to blame. With the help of a staff insider and undercover recording in the city鈥檚 main hospital, the 麻豆社 finds shocking lapses in medical protocol. Medicine vials and syringes are often re-used for different children. Cross-contamination seems inevitable. But the local authorities deny there is a problem.
Reporter: Ghazal Abbasi
Producer: John Murphy
Studio Mix: Neil Churchill
Editor: Penny Murphy
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