Jodhpur (Rajasthan): An argument between two doctors inside the operation theatre at a hospital here cost a woman her baby, officials said.

The incident happened at the Umaid Women and Children Hospital Tuesday when gynecologist 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 SN Medical College, which runs the hospital.

One of the doctors later walked out of the operation theater. The child succumbed due to falling pulse rate, he said.

The incident went 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.

The woman, identified as Anita, was admitted to the hospital Tuesday morning. She was taken to the labor room, where a doctor checked her and recommended an immediate cesarean delivery.

#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

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