Here's what PIMS, Polyclinic doctors said to BBC team on causalities of PTI workers

A BBC team visited Islamabad’s Polyclinic and PIMS hospitals to investigate the claims of death and injuries during a grand operation against PTI in Islamabad.

The government claims that no shots were fired by security forces during the “Grand Operation” against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), but the actual number of deaths and injuries resulting from the crackdown remains highly debated.

PTI leaders claim that at least 20 workers were killed, with hundreds more injured. Meanwhile, the government insists that no firearms were used by security forces.

The doctors at PIMS and Polyclinic hospitals denied comment on the question of how many bodies and injured were brought to the hospitals but said they performed record surgeries on the night of the grand operation against PTI.

A doctor at Polyclinic said some of the injured were critically injured and they even did not wait for anesthesia and conducted surgeries to save their lives.

Another female doctor said they received a number of injured and even treated two patients on a single bed. "I cannot forget that night in my life

At both PIMS and Polyclinic, staff reported revealed that they were under pressure to keep records of the injured and dead from the protests from being made public. PTI members were especially concerned about being arrested if their names were registered in the hospital’s records.

A police officer at Polyclinic mentioned that they were instructed to hand over the injured to the authorities, and many injured PTI workers requested that their names not be recorded, fearing possible detention.