Berhampur, May 23: A criminal case has been registered against an ENT doctor while the owner of a private nursing home was arrested on the charge of negligence in the treatment of a 25-year-old woman. The negligence led to the death of the woman, her kin has alleged.

The officials, which raided Ayush Hospital in Brahma Nagar today, said the facility was not a registered one. They also arrested its owner Shankar Kumar Sahu and shifted all its patients to MKCG.

The deceased, Swarnaprava Das of Umburi Dharam Saranpur village about 40km from here, was suffering from sinusitis and was operated on her nose at the hospital by ENT specialist Mamata Sahu on Tuesday. Swarnaprava died after she was shifted to MKCG Medical College and Hospital in a serious condition.

“We took action after Niranjan Das, husband of Swarnaprava, lodged a complaint with Baidyanathpur police station,” said sub-divisional police officer Sarat Mahapatra.

“We have registered a case against the hospital owner, Shankar Kumar Sahu, and ENT specialist Mamata Sahu. We will initiate further action against them if the post-mortem report confirms it to be a case of negligence,” said inspector in charge of Baidyanathpur police station Deepak Mishra.

Sub-collector Ajit Mishra have ordered shifting of all its patients to MKCG.

“Dr Mamata Sahu, who is also an associate professor in the ENT department of MKCG, referred Swarnaprava to Ayush Hospital at 12 noon on Tuesday while the operation took place at 4pm,” Shankar said. Swarnaprava’s husband Niranjan, an engineer from Rayagada, said: “When we approached Mamata Sahu in the ENT department of MKCG on Tuesday, she advised that a surgery was the only remedy for my wife’s cure and asked us to get her admitted to Ayush Hospital.”