Alice Adderley

This is a Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

This is a necessary action to reduce the population.

Without that action, it's impossible to control the population.

And as we saw in the estimates, by 2030, we would have at least 500 hippos affecting our ecosystems and harming our native species, such as manatees and river turtles.

Doctors gave him injections and sent him home.

Eventually, Mohammed Amin was referred to another hospital in the neighbouring city of Multan, where he was tested.

They said, according to his report, your child has HIV.

The infection has attacked.

But the family's trauma didn't end there.

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Asma Bibi.

Shortly after Mohammed Amin's death, his older sister Asma developed flu symptoms.

She received treatment at THQ hospital.

Two months later, she too fell seriously ill.

Asma was not alone.

Over the winter of 2024 and 2025, a local clinician called Dr Gul found that dozens of children had contracted HIV.

The hospital medical superintendent was dismissed and the authorities reassured parents that the wards were now safe.

But months after the crackdown, that I heard from a whistleblower from inside the hospital in Tonso, he told the BBC that nothing had changed.

Believing children's lives were at stake, he went undercover.

The footage, recorded over three months, shows nurses injecting children through their clothes, passing over dirty syringes for reuse and unqualified volunteers injecting child after child from a contaminated vial of medicine.