Social media was abuzz in the recent days with reports of a Karachi-based medic, Dr Hina dying after falling into a road pit.
Geo News reports that a private university hospital has denied that the death was caused by a pit on a road.
Dr Hina, reportedly an employee of Hamdard University Hospital, was said to have died when the motorcycle she was riding on bumped into a broken part of the road.
However, Geo News quoted the spokesperson of the university, who said that Dr. Hina did not die by falling into a pit. Instead, she had a brain stroke.
The spokesperson elaborated that Dr Hina was going from Model Colony along with her husband on a motorcycle when she suffered a brain stroke near Gulshan Iqbal. Consequently, she fell off the motorcycle, suffering severe head injuries. Other parts of her body were also injured. She was brought to the hospital, where she remained under treatment for two days.
She later succumbed to the injuries and passed away.