HC takes note as doctors fight in OT, newborn dies

JODHPUR: The Rajasthan high court took cognisance on Wednesday of a video purportedly shot in a Jodhpur government hospital that shows two senior doctors quarrelling and using filthy language inside the operating theatre during a caesarean section.

The spat triggered allegations that their patient, identified as Anita, lost her newborn because of medical negligence. The court too sought to know if that was the case.

The secretary of the Rajasthan Legal Services Authority told the court that a woman named Naseem Bano was on the operating table when the video was shot. She delivered a healthy girl.

Anita was also in the operating theatre for a C-section and her newborn, also a girl, died after birth.

The official said a detailed inquiry would reveal if the two doctors’ row had a role in the infant’s death.

They were apparently bickering over the newborn girl’s falling pulse rate.

Attired in green medical overalls, face masks and gloves, gynaecologist Ashok Nainwal and anaesthetist Mathura Lal Tak were seen shouting at each other in the cell phone clip shot by the nursing staff of Umaid Hospital.

“You stay within your limits,” Nainwal is heard in the video.

After trading abuses, one of the doctors allegedly walked out of the operating theatre.

Hospital superintendent Ranjana Desai said the woman was brought in a critical condition and immediately wheeled into the operating theatre, but her baby could not be saved.

THEY WERE APPARENTLY BICKERING OVER THE NEWBORN GIRL’S FALLING PULSE RATE.