MULTAN: People in Multan as well as throughout Pakitan were shocked to learn about an appalling incident of dozens of mutilated bodies and human remains found on the roof of Nishtar Hospital Multan.
Citizens started sending messages, forwarding posts to each other carrying blurred screenshots and news video clips about the discovery with hundreds of questions in the mind.
TV channels ran the Breaking News, showing the horrors of Nishtar Hospital’s dead house packed with rotten bodies. In the videos and pictures, some bodies were thrown on the floor and an old wooden cot.
Taking it as an opportunity, anti-state elements immediately jumped into the social media storm by posting fake news that the remains were those of missing persons.
An anonymous account that’s churns out tweets that seem@to attack Pakistan and it’s government and state has done a tweet claiming that the bodies found on the roof of Multan’s Nishtar Hospital are those of residents of Balochistan. That is false and incorrect. pic.twitter.com/vxxqElLUY2
— FactCheckPakistan (@PakistanCheck) October 14, 2022
Following the discovery of several bodies dumped on the roof of Multan’s Nishtar Hospital after its morgue ran out of space, several accounts that engage in tweets seen as hostile to Pakistan and often tweet disinformation, have claimed that these are of Baloch persons pic.twitter.com/SLODNpAFlx
— FactCheckPakistan (@PakistanCheck) October 14, 2022
Moonis Elahi was the first high-level figure who responded adequately, quoting official as saying that the bodies were handed over by the Police to Nishtar Medical University for post-mortem, and if required, to be used for teaching purpose for MBBS students.
An official inquiry has been launched. Pls read initial reply:
Respected Sir,
These are the unknown dead bodies handed over by the police to Nishtar Medical university Multan for post mortem and if required to be used for teaching purpose for MBBS students. https://t.co/NhGFYWsGYj— Moonis Elahi (@MoonisElahi6) October 14, 2022
A few social media users, however, did demand that a cadaver, a body used for examination by medical students, must be treated with respect & dignity.
https://twitter.com/dr_danish_awan/status/1580492241550069760
Soon after the news went viral, ‘Nisthar Hospital’ started trending on mainstream electronic media, as well as across all social media platforms, with some poking inhuman jokes, while others attributing it to alleged ethnic repression.
