Reports have been coming in that 500 unidentified dead bodies have been found on the rooftop of the hospital in Multan.
Before getting to the horrendous incident, let us first discuss China’s organ harvesting business.
Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy for millions of patients and one of the greatest successes of modern medicine. However, a limited supply of donor organs, paired with a massive demand for transplants, has fueled the global organ trafficking industry which exploits poor, underprivileged and persecuted members of society as a source of organs to be purchased by wealthy transplant tourists.
Although this practice occurs in many developed countries, the situation in China is particularly concerning. China is the only country in the world to have a massive industrial-scale organ trafficking practice that harvests organs from executed prisoners of conscience. This practice is known as forced organ harvesting.
To understand forced organ harvesting, it is useful to consider a hypothetical scenario: a patient in Canada with end-stage heart disease is in need of a life-saving cardiac transplant. Doctors in Canada informs the patient he needs to go on a waiting list until a compatible donor dies under suitable conditions. This process can take weeks, months or even years. The patient then finds a transplant program in China that can schedule a cardiac transplant from a compatible donor weeks in advance.
This raises several important questions. Cardiac transplant can only come from deceased donors, so how can the hospital match this patient with a potential “deceased” donor weeks in advance? How did the hospital find this donor? How do they know when that donor will die? Has the donor consented to have their organs harvested?
The answers to these questions are extremely distressing. China uses incarcerated prisoners of conscience as an organ donor pool to provide compatible transplants for patients. These prisoners or “donors” are executed and their organs are harvested against their will, and used in a prolific and profitable transplant industry, making huge money.
As transplant nephrologists and medical professionals time and again mention, they aim to spread awareness about organ trafficking, particularly forced organ harvesting, to colleagues, institutions, patients and the public. They are involved with organizations like ‘Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting’ and ‘International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China’, which have done considerable work in this area for over a decade.
China currently has the second-largest transplant program in the world. Transplant operations in China increased rapidly in the early 2000s without a corresponding rise in voluntary organ donors, which led to questions about the source of the organs.
Let’s now discuss what has recently happened in Multan
Has Pakistan also started following the footprints of China?
We are well-aware with the fact that the province of Balochistan alone has witnessed more than 50,000 cases of forced disappearance till date and the cases still continue, unhindered. Massive protests have taken a toll on the streets of Balochistan and the mainstream media have been constantly and consistently ignoring it now for decades.
Locals says that army and security agency (ISI) are behind this heinous act against humanity. The protest is going on for the last 40 years, the government and the local police have gone deaf to the needs of the Baloch, taking them as second-class citizens.
In parts of Balochistan, it is common to find beheaded dead bodies. Along the similar lines, the bodies which have been found on the rooftop of Nishtar Hospital in Multan, a city of Pakistan, organs of all the dead bodies have been missing. Bodies have been slit open and charred, making them almost impossible to recognize. It is only through the Balochi ‘shalwars’ through which they bodies have been corroborated.
Now the question which persists is where did the organs of these bodies go? With heavy presence of Chinese militia in parts of Balochistan, the reasoning gets substantial standing. Scrutinizing the gravity of the incident, this seems to be a well-crafted nexus of ISIS, army and the ruling government. Committees have been formed in the past which only proved to be good-for-nothing. The agony of Baloch, Sindh and Pashtun remains subdued since time immemorial only to be oppressed at the hands of the tyrannical oppressor. Human mind is a dangerous thing, it remorse but never redress.
So, the responsibility now shifts to our shoulders to hold the government accountable for the loss of our brethren.
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