A mobile court in Gopalganj sentenced a clinic owner to three months' jail for conducting caesarean section without any doctor or nurse at his clinic in Kotalipara upazila.
Deshbandhu Biswas, 50, owner of Shantilata Clinic and Diagnostic Centre was jailed on Friday.
Mohammad Kamrul Faruk, officer-in-charge of Kotalipara Police Station, said Bithi Halder, wife of Bidhan Halder of Pirarbari village, was admitted to the clinic on November 9 following her labour pain, her condition soon deteriorated after the clinic owner conducted the operation.
Bithi was later admitted to Khulna Medical College Hospital, UNB reported.
Following a written complaint submitted by the victim's family, a mobile court, led by ASM Mahfuzur Rahman, who is also the upazila nirbahi officer, conducted a drive at the clinic and found that the operation was conducted without any doctor or nurse.
The court then sentenced the clinic owner to three months' jail.
