Nurse raped patient with Covid 19 who died hours later | the Chronicle

The unusual incident occurred at a public hospital in the city of Bhopal over a month ago, but it has just been announced by local police in the last few hours. As reported NDTV, the woman was admitted to one of the departments specializing in the coronavirus after receiving her positive diagnosis, and it is there that the nurse proceeded to rape her.

The police officer Irshad Wali explained that the the victim came to report the attack to the authorities a few hours before his death, and allegedly requested that the incident not be disclosed to anyone to protect their identity. “That’s why the information was not shared with anyone except the research team»Commented the policeman.

The victim’s state of health deteriorated rapidly after filing his complaint. Doctors turned to the ventilator for treatment, but the woman died a few hours later.

Thanks to the complaint, the perpetrator was identified, Santosh ahirwar 40 years old, who was arrested and is still being held in Bhopal central prison awaiting trial. The accused had previously received a complaint of sexual harassment to a 24-year-old colleague, and has also been suspended in the past for drinking alcohol at work.

Bhopal gas tragedy survivor

Once the case was made public, we knew that the victim was a survivor of an infamous incident in the capital of Madhya Pradesh, where a leak of 42 tons of methyl isocyanate from a chemical plant killed 25,000 people and injured 500,000.

Association of victims of the Bhopal tragedy written to Indian authorities condemning the actions of the public hospital: “The administration of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital research center did everything in his power to push this heinous and criminal act under the rug and this is precisely the reason why the family of the rape victim was not even informed of the incident“.

The organization calls for an investigation into the woman’s death and that all public hospitals ensure that they do not hire sex offenders, as the installation of CCTV cameras in all Covid 19 pavilions.

In addition, they pointed out that the survivors of the tragedy are seven times more likely to die from coronavirus compared to normal citizens, and alerted the authorities of the “pathetic conditions“in which the 19 Covid rooms of hospitals in India are located.