Police yesterday arrested three owners of a private hospital over the death of a newborn in C-section due to alleged negligence of a doctor, who performed the operation.

They are Rezaul Kabir Murad, Azhar Mahmud Jewel and Ashrafur Rahman Rony. 

The arrestees were being interrogated, said Monsur Ahmed, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Kotwali Police Station, adding that the victim's family filed a case against six people, including the three and the physician concerned, in this connection. 

Quoting the case statement, the OC said Harun-or-Rashid, a garment worker, admitted his wife Jannat Begum, 22, to Porosh Private Hospital in Mymensingh town for a caesarean operation on Sunday night. 

The baby was the first of the couple of Kalyanpur village in Sadar upazila, the police said.

Dr FD Amin Shishir of Community Based Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh, a private hospital in Mymensingh, carried out the operation around midnight.

After the operation, the hospital authorities told Harun that the female child had died in her mother's womb. 

Harun and his other family members protested it and claimed that the baby died during the operation as there were injury marks on child's face and back.

Contacted, Shishir claimed that the child had died in her mother's womb three to four days ago.

Shishir said as the patient was screaming with serious pain, they decided to operate on her. The patient's blood sample was tested, but no ultrasonogram was done.

Police recovered the body and sent it to Mymensingh Medical College morgue for an autopsy.

Victim's family demanded a proper investigation into the death to bring the persons responsible for the death to book.

AKM Abdur Rob, civil surgeon of Mymensingh, said the hospital was launched around six months ago, but it has no licence.

“I visited the hospital over a month ago and asked the hospital authorities to stop its activities until they get a licence. But they continued their activities,” he said.

A probe body will be formed to investigate the death, added the civil surgeon.