India, June 12 -- LUCKNOW A video purportedly showing an X-ray image being printed on a paper sheet at the district hospital attached to the autonomous state medical college in Sultanpur went viral after political parties shared it on their social media handle.

Samajawadi Party chief and former CM Akhilesh Yadav and AAP leader and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh shared the video, raising questions over facilities at the government college. Yadav also criticised the state government.

The college authorities, however, said it was out of choice to save money and avoid using plastic film that is generally used to print an X-ray image.

Dr Salil K Srivastava, principal of the college, said: "Printing the X-ray image on photo paper is by choi...