Driver Left Injured Man Upside Down For Urinating In Ambulance. He Died.

Thiruvananthapuram: Upset that a road accident victim had urinated in his ambulance, the driver left the critically injured man in a near inverted position on a stretcher outside the Thrissur Medical College Hospital in Kerala. The man died within hours.

A shocking video reportedly shot by a witness and shared widely on social media shows the injured man lying helpless on an inclined stretcher, which is partly inside the ambulance and partly on the road with his head on the ground.

The ambulance driver has been identified. He has been charged with endangering a life with criminal negligence.

The accident took place on March 20. The man was critically wounded and had head injuries. He had been admitted to a hospital in Palakkad and then, on the same day, taken about 70 km away to Thrissur for better treatment. It was there that the incident took place around 8.30 pm, according to the police.

As the man wasn't accompanied by any relative, he was brought to Thrissur by some staff members of the Palakkad hospital.

"The staff had rushed inside the hospital to pick up gloves to assist the patient and that's when the driver pulled the stretcher out," police sources told NDTV.

The accident victim lay on the stretcher in the inverted position for until he finally lifted up by two hospital staff members who placed him on a wheelchair. Though he was operated upon, he died in the early hours of the next day.