- Numerous decomposing bodies were discovered on the top of Nishtar Hospital, shocking the country and sparking an inquiry.
- Pervez Elahi, the chief minister of Punjab, pays attention to corpses left behind.
- According to HOD, police handed over remains for post-mortem.
- According to social media, hundreds of human body parts have been found on a roof.
Following the discovery of many unidentified and rotting remains on the roof of the morgue at Nishtar Hospital in Multan on Friday, the administration decided to look into the situation.
After the corpses were found and videos and photographs were posted online, the Punjab government established a six-person committee to look into the event.
Additionally, the vice chancellor of Nishtar Medical University has established a three-person commission to conduct an investigation into the occurrence.
Also on October 13, 2022, a letter was addressed to the hospital’s medical superintendent requesting a thorough investigation report within three days.
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The abandoned corpses have been noted by Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, who has also requested a report from the secretary of Punjab’s department of specialised healthcare and medical education.
Throwing these remains onto the roof was a barbaric conduct, according to the Punjab chief minister, and the service members involved should face severe disciplinary measures.
“No disrespect problem”
On Twitter, the former federal minister Moonis Elahi posted an update on the situation and included the first statement from the chair of the anatomy department at Nishtar Medical University.
The HOD said that these are the unidentified remains that the police had given them for post-mortem examination and, “if needed,” to be utilised for MBBS students’ educational objectives.
The HOD said unequivocally that there is “no problem of disrespect” about the dead and that following bone retrieval, the deceased are “always” buried correctly, implying that it is a standard procedure at the hospital.
Numerous remains are allegedly decomposing in the chamber constructed on the top of the Nishtar Hospital.
On the other hand, reports making the rounds on social media claim that hundreds of human body parts have been found on the roof.
However, no government official has either confirmed or denied the existence of the various organisations.
Situation in the hospital’s freezer
One of the five freezers at the hospital’s cold room, which had a capacity for 40 corpses, is now active, according to sources who work there. The other four freezers have been mostly inoperable for a long time.
According to the sources, only seven to eight corpses could now be stored in the cold room since four of the freezers were not working, and given the state of the hospital, two rooms above the cold room are packed with dead.
The remains of unidentified persons are stored in the hospital for a month, they said, after which they are transported to the lab for identification.
“Tip from a whistleblower”
According to Tariq Zaman Gujjar, advisor to the chief minister of Punjab, information concerning the dead corpses on the mortuary’s roof at Nishtar Hospital came from a tip from a whistleblower.
When a guy remarked to me, “If you want to perform a nice deed, go the morgue and check it out,” Gujjar claimed he was on a visit to Nishtar Hospital.
He said that when he got there, the staff wasn’t prepared to open the mortuary’s doors. Gujjar said, “I said to this, if you don’t open it right now, I’m going to file a FIR against you.
He said that when the morgue eventually opened and they entered, they saw at least 200 dead scattered all over the place. “[Men and women’s] rotting corpses were all naked. Even female bodies were exposed.
Gujjar said that when he asked them (the physicians) to explain what was happening, they explained that they were being used for teaching reasons by the medical students.
“Are these bodies for sale? I inquired with the mortuary staff.
Gujjar said that when he asked physicians to clarify the incident, they replied that it was not what it seemed to be since they were being used by medical students for educational purposes.
“Two of the corpses on the roof were a little bit decomposing when I found them. They were covered with maggots,” Gujjar stated.
In his fifty years of existence, he said he had never seen anything like it.
The bodies on the roof were being scavenged by vultures and worms. Our count indicated that there were at least 35 remains on the mortuary’s rooftop.
The victims should have had a dignified burial after Namaz-e-Janaza, but instead they were tossed on the roof, according to Gujjar.
What happens to corpses that go unclaimed?
One to two corpses are taken to Karachi’s government hospitals every 48 to 72 hours, according to veteran crime reporter Faheem Siddiqui, who serves as Geo News’ Karachi bureau chief. This equates to 15-20 bodies every month.
According to Siddiqui, the body is the responsibility of the police station, under whose roof the hospital is located. A representative of the government hospital then alerts the police about the corpse once it arrives at the hospital.
According to him, the police then begin the procedure outlined in Section 174 and deposit the corpse in a secure location.
If the dead person’s family does not show up to collect the corpse even after that, it will be buried at the Edhi cemetery.
