A newborn baby died while two senior doctors were busy massaging their egos indulging in a fight in the middle of performing a caesarean operating on a woman in the operation theatre on Tuesday.

The video, making rounds on the internet, was recorded by one of the hospital staff members.

#WATCH Rajasthan: Verbal spat between two doctors in OT during the surgery of a pregnant woman in Jodhpur's Umaid Hospital (29.8.17) pic.twitter.com/eZfHHISQGB — ANI (@ANI) August 30, 2017

The accused doctors, identified as Ashok Nainwal and ML Tak – have been suspended. “Both doctors have been removed immediately, and disciplinary action will be taken against them,” Umaid Hospital Principal AL Bhat told ANI.

The video shows both the doctors engaging in a war of words during a caesarian surgery. Reportedly, it was an emergency operation because of the infant’s feeble heartbeat.

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In the video, Dr Tak was asking a junior doctor to get some tests which did not go down well with Dr Nainwal. “You stay within your aukat[limit],” Nainwal can be heard shouting at Tak, as the argument took an ugly turn.

The surgery was resumed soon but the doctors failed to save the baby.