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Wheelchair and stretchers are commonly used in hospitals. And this medical equipment is used for transferring patients from one place to another. During transferring patients, it creates problems to patients and also creates problems for attendant and nurse. Sometimes it creates problems to patient while transferring patient from wheelchair to stretcher, stretcher to bed and bed to wheelchair is always issue for both hospital staff and family members of patient. This system causes stress, body pain to patients and sometimes chances to sleep down the patient. Understanding the various issues regarding the mobility equipment a better design will be an asset for medical field and helpful for disabled person. This paper presents the various design and fabrication of wheelchair cum stretcher and aims to explore design for patient to transfer patient from bed to wheelchair and wheelchair to stretcher. This innovation helps medical staff to transfer patient from chair to bed very easily because chair become a stretcher and it is adjustable to height of bed. Conversion of wheelchair to stretcher and vice versa is achieved by simple linkage mechanism which can be manually or automatically operated mechanism.