Video of two doctors' heated argument at operation theatre in Indian hospital goes viral

A video of an operation theatre at a hospital in India where two doctors were locked in a heated argument while a pregnant woman is lying on the bed, has gone viral on the social media.

The two doctors, identified as Ashok Nanival and Mathura Lal Tak at Umaid hospital in north Rajasthan, were temporarily released from their duties after the video of them arguing while standing over a pregnant patient on an operating table surfaced, BBC reported.

After the video hit the social media online, many reports said the woman pictured in the video gave birth to a baby who did not survive.

But Dr Ranjana Desai, the superintendent of Umaid Hospital in Jodhpur, told BBC that those reports were inaccurate.

"By the time I saw the video and conducted an internal inquiry, the media had already reported that this baby had died," she told the BBC.

"A baby did die, but not the one the media reported," she said.

A few feet away, on another operating table within the same room, a different woman gave birth to a stillborn baby. "These two incidents are not linked," Desai told the BBC.

A senior hospital official told the BBC that the woman and her baby are fine.

Footage of the incident at the hospital has caused outrage on social media.

In the video, the two doctors can be heard slinging insults at each other in Hindi before arguing over whether the patient had eaten before surgery.

The source of the leaked video is unclear, but the official confirmed that it came from within the hospital.

The footage shows there were at least 10 to 12 doctors and nurses were at the operation theatre, one of them must have captured the incident, and most likely on a mobile phone.

Someone's phone was ringing at the OT, and that was also heard in the video.

The hospital authorities said the two doctors were not formally suspended but had been released from their duties at the hospital while they proceed with an internal inquiry.

Additionally, the hospital is in the process of collecting statements from staff to find out who shot the video and how it came to the public domain.

Meanwhile, the Rajasthan High Court has ordered the hospital to submit a report, while it proceeds with a separate state level investigation into the incident.