Moment TikToker throws herself to the floor screaming ‘I’m dying’ in busy London hospital so she can film ‘how to get seen in UK A&E’ stunt for her channel

The is the moment a TikToker pretended to collapse in an ‘understaffed’ A&E ward while shouting ‘I’m dying’ in an ‘unfunny’ prank.

Londoner Farah Shams, 23, performed the stunt for her more than 500,000 social media followers. 

In the video, entitled ‘How to get seen in UK A&E’, which was shot by a friend, Ms Shams stands up and begins to grunt loudly, before shouting, ‘Oh my God, I’m dying’.

She then walks to the middle of what’s claimed to be a packed NHS waiting area and yells ‘Help’ as she drops to lie on the floor for a couple of seconds before getting up and moaning, ‘Why is nobody helping me?’

The TikTok prankster stood up in the middle of the waiting room and started grunting loudly

The TikToker claims she was waiting in A&E for seven hours but it is not known why she was waiting

One medic at the unnamed hospital stops to look down at the TikToker and a man who appears to be a security guard asks, ‘What happened?’

She confronts him and says, ‘I’m dying, we’re all dying’, before the guard asks her to sit down and one of the baffled patients shouts, ‘Her friend’s videoing this.’

The clip has had more than 4million TikTok views, but its comment section is filled with users slamming the controversial TikToker.

One person said: ‘What a display of stupidity, do you think they’re ignoring you? They’re under funded and under staffed, show some respect.’

Another wrote: ‘Hospital staff got enough to deal with.’

A third added: ‘This is a really selfish thing to do. people are sitting in there for hours… feeling awful and you’re not making it any better.’

Many people responded angrily to the video, saying it wasn’t funny and that Farah Shams was a disgrace

Ms Shams hit back at those slamming her online, explaining: ‘Wait for seven hours? And be discharged and not told… to then wait a further three hours when no one had any intentions of telling me I was discharged?’

A fellow TikTok user said: ‘I don’t find this funny, there are sick/injured people who all have to wait a really long time to be seen.’

Another critic added: ‘She’s missed the mark with this video. Her other ones are borderline funny but this is just disrespectful.’

Ms Shams claims she decided to pull the dramatic stunt on October 27 because she had waited for ten hours  in the waiting room.

She hit back at those slamming her online, explaining: ‘Wait for seven hours? And be discharged and not told… to then wait a further three hours when no one had any intentions of telling me I was discharged?’ 

She’s brushed off criticism by calling angry users ‘keyboard warriors’.

A commenter hit back, saying: ‘Because if there’s 120 patients and let’s say 10 doctors how is it possible to NOT wait? I can’t deal with you people.’

But one replied: ‘I felt like this when I waited four hours in A&E with a broken foot.’

Ms Shams said: ‘They actually violate. What I did is what everyone thinks of doing in their imagination.’

One fan commented: ‘This was funny. Why are y’all so mad?’

The TikToker added: ‘Legit everyone’s sooooo pressed but half the people are keyboard warriors. If they were there they would’ve stayed quiet.’

In another video she films herself stuffing a pack of salmon, a tub of butter and a box of cereal inside her coat at a supermarket, before blaming the cost of living crisis in the caption.

MailOnline contacted Farah Shams and NHS England for comment.