Calamity strikes family as 15-year-old boy, Krishan Kumar alias Golu, dies
It’s common to hear or read about people indulging in all kinds of dangerous or illegal activities, inspired watching YouTube or other social media videos/tutorials. But untrained hands performing complicated YouTube video/tutorials-assisted surgery on humans is a different ballgame altogether.
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According to news reports, an overzealous self-proclaimed doctor in Bihar’s Saaran district allegedly did just that with disastrous consequences for the victim.
The self-styled doctor, Ajit Kumar Puri, who had opened his own medical facility, Ganpati Seva Sadan at Motirajpur Dharambagi Bazaar in Saaran, after having earlier worked as a helper-cum-compounder for four years, performed gall bladder stone removal surgery on a 15-year-old boy, allegedly assisted by a YouTube video he was watching on his mobile phone.
After apparently botching up the surgery, when patient Krishan Kumar alias Golu’s condition deteriorated alarmingly, the ‘doctor’ assured the patient’s father Chandan Shah that he would rush the boy to a bigger hospital in Patna.
The boy, however, died on the way after the ‘doctor’ fled.
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‘Doctor’ Puri was traced by the police and arrested following a written complaint lodged by the grieving father, Chandan Shah, in which he alleged that the ‘doctor’ started performing the surgery without their knowledge or consent. Later, when they learnt of the surgery being performed, and they protested, the ‘doctor’ silenced them saying who’s the doctor, you or me?
The reports quoted Saaran Superintendent of Police Ashish Bharti as informing the media that the accused, Ajit Kumar Puri, was absconding after the incident, but was later arrested and his clinic has been sealed. Earlier, the police registered a case on the written complaint by the boy’s father.
According to the complaint, the boy Golu was brought to the medical facility complaining of stomach-ache and vomiting. The ‘doctor’ initially tried out various injections and medicines over two days to treat the patient. On the third day he performed the surgery without their knowledge or consent.
