A video of a woman claiming that pneumonia, HIV, and cardiovascular patients are being treated together in a hospital’s COVID-19 isolation ward has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter. The footage includes superimposed text that claims the hospital is the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, a state-run facility in the Pakistani city of Karachi.
The footage shows a man and woman, both wearing surgical masks, making claims in Hindi about a hospital using a COVID-19 isolation ward to treat non-related ailments., At the 20-second mark, the man states\xa0that his wife has HIV and tuberculosis and was “admitted to corona ward” and that hospital staff “are saying that they do not have ventilators.” He adds: “Please someone should help me. Please.”, The woman then states: “Well you can see that an HIV patient has been admitted to the corona ward, pneumonia patients have also been admitted to the corona ward and the heart patients as well. So you can imagine how Shatabdi hospital is playing with the lives of the public.”, The video’s superimposed text reads: “This video is Abbasi Shaheed Hospital Karachi.”, The post’s caption read: “All Patients are transfered sic in Corona Ward. HIV, Heart etc.”, Below is a screenshot of the misleading Facebook post:, The same video was also shared alongside a similar claim\xa0that the hospital is in Pakistan on Facebook here and here and on Twitter here., The claim is false., The woman speaking in the video names the hospital as Shatabdi Hospital, a facility in Mumbai. In the clip, she\xa0speaks Hindi, the most widely spoken language in India, and not Urdu, the lingua franca in Pakistan., A search also found another video that the same woman published on YouTube that details allegedly\xa0grim conditions for COVID-19 patients at Shatabdi Hospital. The video was published on April 9, 2020 and is titled “CONDITION OF MUMBAI SHATABDI HOSPITAL TREATING COVID-19 PATIENTS”., “I request all of you do not bring your patient to Shatabdi hospital, because other than death they will not give anything,” she says at the video’s two-minute mark., At the three-minute 50-second mark, the woman also claims that a pneumonia patient was put into a COVID-19 isolation area and asks “will our administration take responsibility for her or will our Mr. Modi?” – a reference to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi., Below is a screenshot of the YouTube video:, Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, the Karachi hospital named in the misleading posts, refuted the claim that the video shows its facility., “The video circulating on social media was wrongly attributed to his hospital. We don\t have any diagnostic facility of coronavirus and subsequently there is no admission of coronavirus patients at the hospital," Dr. Nadeem Rajput, the hospital’s medical superintendent, told AFP by phone on May 4, 2020., , Copyright © AFP 2017-2020.  All rights reserved.  Users can access and consult this website and use the share features available for personal, private, and non-commercial purposes.  Any other use, in particular any reproduction, communication to the public or distribution of the content of this website, in whole or in part, for any other purpose and/or by any other means, without a specific licence agreement signed with AFP, is strictly prohibited.  The subject matter depicted or included via links within the Fact Checking content is provided to the extent necessary for correct understanding of the verification of the information concerned.  AFP has not obtained any rights from the authors or copyright owners of this third party content and shall incur no liability in this regard.  AFP and its logo are registered trademarks.
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