Boy dies as hospital sends mechanic instead of doctor in ambulance!

• The boy's family had agreed to pay Rs 8,000 for an ambulance and another Rs8,000 for a doctor.

A 16-year-old boy from Birbhum, West Bengal, died in a critical-care ambulance that allegedly had an air-conditioning mechanic posing as a doctor. The boy, Arijit Das, was a class X student and had complained of fever a day before his board examinations began on Monday.
The boy's family had agreed to pay Rs8,000 for an ambulance and another Rs8,000 for a doctor while making requisition through a nursing home in Burdwan, Kolkata.

However, it was only on reaching the hospital in Kolkata that the family discovered that the man accompanying them in the ambulance, who claimed to be a doctor, was an AC mechanic instead. Police arrested Sheikh Sarfarajuddin, 25, the fake doctor, and Tara Babu Sha, 26, the ambulance driver, after the family lodged a complaint against the two.

"We agreed to pay Rs 8,000 for the ambulance and another Rs 8,000 for the doctor. But when we wanted to sit with Arijit and the doctor in the ambulance, the driver didn't allow us. We were asked to hire another vehicle," said Arijit's father. The father and his elder brother Swapan somehow squeezed themselves into the driver's seat. They first became suspicious when they saw the driver fixing the oxygen cylinder instead of the doctor.

When Arijit's fever did not subside for two days and he started having severe back pain, his father took him to Rampurhat Sub-Divisional Hospital. "When all blood test reports failed to detect anything, we decided to shift him to a nursing home. We admitted him to Annapurna Nursing Home in Burdwan," Arijit's uncle Dibyendu Mondal was quoted as saying in The Times of India. However, when his condition worsened and he started complaining of chest pain, his father decided to take Arijit to Rabindranath Tagore International Institute for Cardiac Sciences in Kolkata. The family requested a critical care ambulance and a doctor for the 105-km journey to Kolkata.

Doctors declared Arijit brought dead.

Sarfarajuddin first claimed that he was a technician who assisted doctors at Annapurna Nursing Home, but later confessed to being just an air-conditioning mechanic.

The boy's family had agreed to pay Rs 8,000 for an ambulance and another Rs8,000 for a doctor.


A 16-year-old boy from Birbhum, West Bengal, died in a critical-care ambulance that allegedly had an air-conditioning mechanic posing as a doctor. The boy, Arijit Das, was a class X student and had complained of fever a day before his board examinations began on Monday.

The boy's family had agreed to pay Rs8,000 for an ambulance and another Rs8,000 for a doctor while making requisition through a nursing home in Burdwan, Kolkata.

However, it was only on reaching the hospital in Kolkata that the family discovered that the man accompanying them in the ambulance, who claimed to be a doctor, was an AC mechanic instead. Police arrested Sheikh Sarfarajuddin, 25, the fake doctor, and Tara Babu Sha, 26, the ambulance driver, after the family lodged a complaint against the two.

"We agreed to pay Rs 8,000 for the ambulance and another Rs 8,000 for the doctor. But when we wanted to sit with Arijit and the doctor in the ambulance, the driver didn't allow us. We were asked to hire another vehicle," said Arijit's father. The father and his elder brother Swapan somehow squeezed themselves into the driver's seat. They first became suspicious when they saw the driver fixing the oxygen cylinder instead of the doctor.

When Arijit's fever did not subside for two days and he started having severe back pain, his father took him to Rampurhat Sub-Divisional Hospital. "When all blood test reports failed to detect anything, we decided to shift him to a nursing home. We admitted him to Annapurna Nursing Home in Burdwan," Arijit's uncle Dibyendu Mondal was quoted as saying in The Times of India. However, when his condition worsened and he started complaining of chest pain, his father decided to take Arijit to Rabindranath Tagore International Institute for Cardiac Sciences in Kolkata. The family requested a critical care ambulance and a doctor for the 105-km journey to Kolkata.

Doctors declared Arijit brought dead.

Sarfarajuddin first claimed that he was a technician who assisted doctors at Annapurna Nursing Home, but later confessed to being just an air-conditioning mechanic.