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A video showing distressed patients lying on beds outside a hospital is going viral on social media. Users claimed it is from Hyderabad.
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India Today Fact Check
The viral video is from a hospital in Pakistan, where patients were evacuated from the building after a fire broke out in the emergency ward.
As the number of coronavirus cases is increasing worldwide rapidly, hospitals are facing difficulties in treating patients due to lack of beds, ventilators, and other medical facilities. Amid this situation, a video showing patients lying on beds in distress outside a hospital is going viral on social media. It is being claimed that the viral video is from the Old City, Hyderabad.
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Dangerous situation in Old City (hyderabad) Posted by Sunjay Parihar on Thursday, 25 June 2020
India Today's Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that the viral video is from Services Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, and not from India. It is from the time when a fire broke out in a surgical emergency ward of the hospitals and patients evacuated from the building.
The archived version of the post can be seen here.
Among others, a Facebook user "Sunjay Parihar" posted the video with the caption: "Dangerous situation in Old City (Hyderabad)"
AFWA probe
To verify the claim with the viral video, we ran a reverse search on one of the keyframes and found many media reports . According to these reports, the video is from Services Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, where a fire broke out in the surgical emergency ward on June 13.
The patients on the beds outside the hospital were rescued from this fire which took away the life of one woman, leaving eight others injured.
As per media reports these were not corona patients. A journalist from Pakistan also took to Twitter asking people not to spread fake news.
A day before yesterday fire erupted in the operation theatre of the multi-storey emergency ward building of the Services Hospital Lahore. Few people are circulating the video and relating it with #COVID19 situation. Please beware of #FakeNews#FakeNewsAlert pic.twitter.com/95vrZ3nEGb — Madiha Abid Ali (@MadihaAbidAli) June 14, 2020
This happened at Services Hospital Lahore due to short circuit in the surgical emergency OT. Please cross check every video before sharing it. #FakeNewsAlert @falamb3 can you please stop spreading fake news? pic.twitter.com/U5jDu0DBVO — Madiha Abid Ali (@MadihaAbidAli) June 14, 2020
It is clear that the viral video is not from India, but Lahore, Pakistan.
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