A woman claiming to be a nurse has allegedly kidnapped a newborn boy from the government-run Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital (MYH) here in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Monday.

The CCTV footage shows an unidentified woman walking into the hospital ward on Sunday evening and taking away the newborn after telling his mother that his pulse was slowing down and he needs to be medically examined, said Sanyogitaganj police station in-charge Rajiv Tripathi.