A woman and her newborn died on Saturday after doctors at a private hospital here performed a caesarean section, allegedly without her husband’s consent, following which family members of the deceased created an uproar at the facility, police said .

According to police, Yashoda (35), wife of Santram Pasi, was taken by her family to a private hospital in the city on Saturday when she suffered labor pains.

Santram alleged that doctors sent him to draw blood and operated on his wife without his consent, a police official said.

The husband claimed that the mother and child died during the operation, but the doctors did not inform him about it and referred her to another hospital, saying her condition was serious, the official said.

In the complaint to the police, the family claimed that when an ambulance was called and preparations were being made to lay down the pregnant woman, they realized that both the woman and her newborn had died, said Dheeraj Kumar, SHO of Baldirai police station.

The family members created a ruckus at the hospital during which the hospital owner and the doctor fled, the police said.

The bodies have been sent for post-mortem and legal action has been initiated in the matter, he added.