California hospital has registered patients for gynecological surgeries without their consent

The hospital argued that the cameras had been installed to avoid stealing the anesthesia from the operating room (Video: Telemundo)

More than 80 women reported to the Sharp Grossmont Hospital, in the city of San Diego, California, for filming them without their consent during gynecological surgeries.

The lawsuit states that the videos recorded "images of cesarean deliveries, complications during delivery, dilatation and curettage to resolve spontaneous abortions, hysterectomies and sterilization procedures ", as the American television network knows Telemundo.

In addition, patients indicated that during these interventions they were undressed, they are thus exposed "in their most vulnerable form".

"Because of the nature of these procedures, the video captured women while they were emotionally and physically exposed, often naked and a large part of their bads were visible"indicates the text of the complaint.

The cameras were activated with the movement and they were in three different operating rooms. The hospital explained that he had settled in 2012 to discover which person stole the anesthesia from the operating rooms.

"Although the cameras were designed to record only those responsible for the anesthesia carts that removed the drugs, Others, such as patients and medical staff in the operating rooms, were sometimes visible by the cameras and were registered, "Sharp Grossmont argued after the complaint, presented for the first time there is three years.

In a recent interview with the television network NBC 7, one of the affected people expressed what she felt when she learned that they had secretly registered her during a complicated delivery in 2012.

"When I arrived in an ambulance and they took me to the operating room on a stretcher, I worried about my daughter who was in trouble and who arrived weeks ago. before. one of my most tender and transcendent moments " said Melissa Escalera.

In their complaint, filed in 2016, lawyers claimed that the hospital had violated a "systematic and shocking" violation your right to privacy. They also reported that they filmed 15,000 patients during various surgeries and that these clips were delivered to safety officers and others without the consent of their patients.

On Thursday, the center issued a letter in which he apologized to the women concerned. Defends that they have given their consent by signing the generic agreement for the admission of the patient, a statement that victims' lawyers categorically deny, saying that this document can not allow the patient's right to privacy to be violated.