A sad and horrific incident has left a patient dead after he was punched to death with a single blow by an irate doctor.
The doctor punched the man to death with a single blow
It was a shocking and dramatic incident as a footage captured the moment an irate doctor killed a patient with a single punch.
The dead patient was accused of kicking a nurse in the hospital who had reported the matter to the doctor who took drastic action. The incident happened in Russia and the doctor's name was given as Ilya Zelendinov.
A footage of the incident shows the terrific moment the patient was punched to death as he protested. Russian media have branded the medic ‘the boxer doctor’. The dead patient was identified as Yevgeny Bakhtin.
After the fatal punch, it took several minutes for medical staff to notice that the punched man wasn’t moving, having suffered brain and skull trauma.
Efforts to revive the man in the southern city of Belgorod failed and he died at the scene. The doctor is being investigated for causing death through negligence, which carries a two year jail sentence.