Bogus goods, bogus certificates, bogus tickets, bogus wine or bogus brand
products, these things are nothing new.
But a bogus ambulance? Wang Yuanlu, 74, died from blood
loss, internal injuries and brain trauma on Monday in Beijing, after an
unregistered ambulance picked him up and took him to a neurological hospital
that didn't have the proper facilities to treat him, reported the Beijing
News.
Wang was run down by a motorcycle while he was crossing the street in
Cangshang, Shunyi District.
Wang Shicai, son of the victim Wang Yuanlu,
sits at the Beijing Zhong'ao Neurological Hospital Tuesday June 20, 2006.
[Beijing News] |
He was conscious and could still speak immediately after the accident,
motorist Wang Laichen told the newspaper. But ten minutes later, Wang started to
writhe in pain on the ground, prompting the motorcyclist to call 120 for an
ambulance at 8:16 p.m.
After making the call, someone who claimed to be from the emergency center
called the motorcyclist's phone asking for the exact location of the accident.
About ten minutes later, an ambulance bearing the emergency 120 sign arrived
and carried Wang and his son Shicai away, while the motorcyclist waited at the
site for traffic police.
While waiting the motorcyclist saw something unusual. "Less than five minutes
later another ambulance came," he said. "It left within minutes after finding
that the injured person had already been taken away."
Wang was driven to Beijing Zhong'ao Neurological Hospital, some 24 kilometers
away, where all he received in terms of treatment was a transfusion and a series
of X-rays over the course of an hour, according to his son.
Zhong'ao is four kilometers farther from the traffic accident site than
Shunyi District Hospital, the best in the region, he said. There is also a
better hospital around seven or eight kilometers away.
