By Lydia Catling For Mailonline
Published: 09:05 EDT, 8 May 2020 | Updated: 10:01 EDT, 8 May 2020
Drivers on a busy street were given a shock when a patient attached to a stretcher was propelled out the back of an ambulance.
Dashcam footage shows cars slowing down and pulling over to allow the emergency vehicle through which is carrying a man who has been involved in a motorcycle crash nearby.
But as the ambulance passes by the back door flies open and the patient falls out the back onto a busy road in Bangkok, Thailand.
A man strapped to a stretcher was propelled out of an ambulance when the door flew open on a busy street in Bangkok, Thailand
Quickly realising he has lost his patient, the ambulance driver runs into the road and is helped by shocked motorcyclists to get the stretcher, which begins rolling along the road, back in the white van.
They bundle it into the ambulance and the driver quickly speeds off again as if nothing happened.
When he arrived at hospital doctors treated the man and luckily they found he did not have any addition injuries from the unexpected fall.
Theerawut Khampimabutr, head of the Poh Teck Tung voluntary foundation operating the ambulance, apologised for the incident which took place on Tuesday afternoon and said that the team had been disciplined.
Thailand's health service relies on volunteer groups connected to private hospitals to carry the burden of responding to emergency calls.
Mr Khampimabutr said: 'The careless paramedics had not cross-checked the equipment was secure before they started the ambulance's engine.
The ambulance driver quickly realises he has lost his patient and runs into the road to get the stretcher back in the white van
Despite the unexpected fall the man, who was in the ambulance after being involved in a motorcycle accident, did not have any additional injuries
'Moreover, at that time many rescuers were involved with other cases which left only two people attending this accident when normally we would have at least three.'
The spokesman for the rescue foundation apologised to the patient and promised to take full responsibility for the blunder.
Assistant manager Aran Tohtuad said: 'On behalf of the foundation I wanted to apologised for our volunteer's carelessness which caused harm to patient. We will take care of him throughout his treatment.
'We have already summoned the volunteer for the investigation and will decide on his punishment after suspending him for three to six months.'
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