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Jodhpur : An argument between two doctors inside the operation theatre at a hospital here cost a woman her baby, officials said. The incident took place at the Umaid Women and Children Hospital yesterday when gynaecologist Ashok Nainwal and anaesthetist M L Tak entered into a verbal spat over checking the heartbeat of the child, said Amilal Bhat, principal of the S N Medical College, which runs the hospital.
One of the doctors later walked out of the operation theatre. The child succumbed due to falling pulse rate, he said. The incident vent viral after somebody present in the delivery room made a video of the development. Bhat said one of the doctors (an assistant professor) has been suspended and the file of the other doctor has been sent to the personnel department at Jaipur on the government's direction.
"An inquiry committee has also been constituted to probe the matter," he said. PTI
