Bihar teen dies after fake doctor operates on him watching YouTube videos
Patna/IBNS: A teenage boy has died in Bihar's Saran after a fake doctor allegedly performed surgery to remove a stone from his gall bladder by merely relying on YouTube videos, media reports said.
After the 15-year-old boy's situation deteriorated, the so-called 'doctor' arranged an ambulance to rush him to a hospital in the state capital Patna.
He died on the way, and the 'doctor' and others with him abandoned the body at the hospital and fled the scene, the teenager's family members said.
Family members of Krishna Kumar said they took him to Ganpati Hospital in Saran after he vomited several times.
"We admitted him and the vomiting stopped soon after. But the doctor Ajit Kumar Puri said he needed an operation. He conducted the operation by watching videos on YouTube. My son died later," the boy's father Chandan Shaw was quoted as saying by NDTV.
The family members said they had no idea if the 'doctor' was qualified enough to treat their son.. "We think he was self-styled and fake," they said.
The teenager's grandfather said the boy was feeling better after the vomiting stopped. "But the doctor sent the father away on an errand and started operating on the boy without the family's consent. The boy was in pain. When we asked the doctor why he was in pain, he snapped at us and asked if we were doctors. Later in the evening, the boy stopped breathing.
"He was revived (with CPR) and then rushed to Patna. He died on the way. They left the boy's body on the stairs of the hospital and fled," said Krishna Kumar's grandfather Prahlad Prasad Shaw.
An FIR has been registered and the boy's body has been for autopsy.
The police are trying to track down the self-styled doctor and other staff of Ganpati Seva Sadan.
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