{"id":72034,"date":"2020-07-29T15:22:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T09:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=72034"},"modified":"2020-07-29T15:22:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T09:52:05","slug":"old-video-of-monkeys-terrorise-in-a-hospital-in-south-africa-shared-as-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-of-monkeys-terrorise-in-a-hospital-in-south-africa-shared-as-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video from South Africa shared as monkeys inside hospital in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of monkeys inside a hospital ward was shared by Pakistan-based Geo News reporter Murtaza Ali Shah as India on June 26.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A hospital somehere in India taken over by monkeys <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gIbdUV0cQI\">pic.twitter.com\/gIbdUV0cQI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Murtaza Ali Shah (@MurtazaViews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MurtazaViews\/status\/1276263359252439040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another Twitter user A_ZaibKhan had shared the video on July 13. &#8220;Modern Hospital in India where educated monkeys treating the patient,&#8221; read his tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Modern Hospital in India where educated monkeys treating the patient. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LO2cMdA8DJ\">pic.twitter.com\/LO2cMdA8DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ali Zaib Khan (@A_ZaibKhan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/A_ZaibKhan\/status\/1282447811557163009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Several other Twitter users have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=monkey%20in%20india%20hospital%20&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared the video<\/a> claiming that it is from India.<\/p>\n<h4>Video from South Africa<\/h4>\n<p>A user shared a screenshot of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6863941\/Monkeys-terrorise-South-African-hospital-stealing-food-patients.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> by UK-based Daily Mail in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hestia2007\/status\/1276273277632200706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reply to Murtaza&#8217;s tweet<\/a>. The article from March 29, 2019, said, &#8220;Monkeys have been terrorising patients at a hospital in South Africa, stealing food from sick patients who are forced to cower from them under their bed covers.&#8221; The video was shot at RK Khan Hospital in Durban, a &#8220;543-bed flagship hospital which was built on the site of a forest where the monkeys used to live.&#8221; The report also included a video of the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-72038 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/south-africa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/south-africa.png 498w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/south-africa-209x300.png 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Africa-based eNCA broadcast a report on the incident informing that health authorities formed a task force to deal with the situation that had been going on for months.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monkeys take over hospital\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lA8M4CyCWhg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, a video from last year of monkeys inside a hopsital in South Africa has been shared as India by Pakistani journalist Murtaza Ali Shah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of monkeys inside a hospital ward was shared by Pakistan-based Geo News reporter Murtaza Ali Shah as India on June 26. A hospital somehere in India taken over by monkeys pic.twitter.com\/gIbdUV0cQI \u2014 Murtaza Ali Shah (@MurtazaViews) June 25, 2020 Another Twitter user A_ZaibKhan had shared the video on July 13. &#8220;Modern Hospital in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":72043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[664],"class_list":["post-72034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/Facebook-Ad-1200x628-px-62-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72045,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72034\/revisions\/72045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72034"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=72034"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=72034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}