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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • Dr Fatima Mir, professor of paediatric medicine at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, says our footage highlights weaknesses in infection control training in Pakistan. “We must warn our injectors: ‘You have become an active instrument for passing disease.’”

    Our investigation suggests that unsafe practices are in part driven by systemic pressures including a reliance on, and cultural preference for, injections as treatment.

    Pakistan has one of the highest rates of therapeutic injections in the world, many of them medically unnecessary. Members of the general public ask for them, including for their children, and doctors happily oblige, says Mir. “They should keep the threshold for injection practice very high. Only give injections for life-threatening illnesses. For mild to moderate illnesses, use oral medication.”

    The fuck? Why would the medical staff oblige? Why not just say “no”? If the government is not giving the hospitals enough money, then why allow for so much waste to occur? But then again, they are reusing needles on children, which is spreading HIV, and do not care enough to stop doing so.

    It all comes back to lack of education. If the parents and medical staff were aware of the risks involved, they would hopefully make more informed decisions.