Fact Check: 2017 video of doctor collapsing after heart attack in Bengaluru shared as recent Mumbai incident
India Today
A video of a doctor collapsing after allegedly experiencing a heart attack is being circulated as a video of a doctor from Mumbai. The India Today Anti Fake News War Room found the viral CCTV footage was from a hospital in Bengaluru.
CCTV footage of a doctor collapsing after allegedly experiencing a heart attack was widely circulated on social media. The video showed a doctor writing something in a file at what appears to be a hospital reception desk. After some time, the doctor was seen collapsing. Hospital staff ran to assist her.
According to the social media posts, the person seen in the video was Dr. Sunitha, a cardiologist at Vinayak Hospital in Mumbai.
A screenshot from one such post can be seen below.
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The archived versions of similar posts can be seen here, here, and here.
The India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) found the viral CCTV footage was from a hospital in Bengaluru. It was also from 2017.
Reverse-searching the keyframes of the viral CCTV footage revealed that the same video had been shared on the internet as early as 2018. While this video was shared on more than one occasion, no actual information about the video seemed available.
