This old video of a doctor suffering a massive heart attack while on duty is from Bengaluru, not Mumbai - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
March 31, 2022
A video is being shared on social media claiming it shows CCTV visuals of a cardiologist suffering a massive heart attack while on rounds recently in Vinayak Hospital in Mumbai. This post mentions the woman as Dr. Sunitha, a cardiologist working in Vinayak hospital. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Recent video of a cardiologist suffering a massive heart attack while on duty in Vinayak Hospital in Mumbai.
Fact: The video shared in the post shows an old incident that took place at Vinayak Hospital in Bangalore, Karnataka. On 26 November 2017, Heart Specialist Dr. Sunitha while on duty had a massive heart stroke and passed away in Vinayak Hospital. This incident did not take place in Mumbai. Hence the post is MISLEADING.
When you observe the video carefully, we could see the date 11-26-2017 at the top of the CCTV footage. So, it can be confirmed that the footage shows an old incident that took place in November 2017. On reverse image search of the screenshots in the video, the same video was found in a Facebook post made on 14 December 2017. Sharing the video, this post mentioned that Heart Specialist Dr. Sunitha had died of a massive heart attack while on duty in Vinayak hospital in Bangalore, Karnataka. A few other social media users have also shared this video with a similar description in December 2017.
The ‘Newsflare’ shared the same video in an article published in December 2017. Reporting the details of this incident to the ‘Newsflare’, Vinayak hospital said, “We rushed her to the ICU and gave her the best possible treatment including an intracardiac injection. But she failed to respond and passed away”. A few other news websites have published articles reporting this incident in 2017. They can be seen here and here.
To sum it up, this old video of a doctor suffering a heart attack while on duty is from Bengaluru, not from Mumbai