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A picture showing patient lying on bed and holding glucose drip by his feet has gone viral with the claim that this is the pathetic condition of government hospitals in Kashmir.
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India Today Fact Check
The picture is more than four years old and from Egypt.
The Covid-19 pandemic has put enormous pressure on India’s health infrastructure. Time and again, social media has highlighted the lack of medical facilities for the needy.
More recently, a picture showing a patient lying on a hospital bed and holding the glucose drip by his feet is going viral. The drip, injected to his body, is not even attached to the bed and the patient holds it in an elevated position by taking the support of the wall. Social media users say this is the condition of government hospitals in Kashmir.
India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the claim along with the photo to be false. The picture is more than four years old and from Egypt.
On August 7, Facebook page “Kashmir youth power” posted the image with a sarcastic caption saying, “Welcome to Kashmir government hospitals”. Till the filing of this article, the post was shared over 2,000 times. The archived version can be seen here.
The post has gone viral on Facebook.
AFWA investigation
With the help of multiple reverse searches, we found that the picture has been used by several Arabic websites before. Many of them said the picture is from Egypt.
In August 2016, an Arabic website “dostor.org” used this picture in an article and wrote it is viral on Facebook, with users asserting that the image is from Egypt. A verified Twitter handle had also tweeted this image in August 2016, saying it is from Egypt.
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#_ pic.twitter.com/cIMicvM7kw — Haytham Abokhalil (@haythamabokhal1) August 2, 2016
Haytham Abokhalil, the above Twitter user, is a TV presenter and human rights activist in Egypt. We reached out to him to further verify the picture. He confirmed that it is an old image from Egypt.
Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party had also used the picture on its website to highlight the condition of healthcare in the country.
We could not find the exact location of the picture, but it is confirmed that it is more than four years old and not from Kashmir but Egypt.
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