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'Doctor' Who Learned How To Operate by Watching YouTube Videos Blamed For Teen's Death: Report

An ambulance arrives near the Anaj Mandi area of New Delhi on December 8, 2019. (Credit: Sajjad Hussain/AFP)

A 15-year-old boy in the Siran district of Bihar state, India, died after a corrupt doctor allegedly watched YouTube videos while attempting to remove a gallbladder stone.

The teen, identified as Krishna Kumar, was reportedly taken by his family to Ganpati Seva Sadan, a private clinic where the "fake doctor" Ajit Kumar Puri was on duty, for stomach pain and vomiting. When Kumar stopped vomiting, Puri reportedly sent the teen's family out on an errand. When the Kumar family returned, Puri was allegedly watching YouTube tutorials while operating on the teen.

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