A coronavirus patient was allegedly gang-raped by three employees at a private hospital in India before she died, according to reports.
The 45-year-old woman was being treated for Covid-19 at Paras HMRI, a private health unit in the Indian state of Bihar, when she was allegedly raped by three employees at the hospital on May 16, according to the victim’s daughter.
The victim, who was on ventilator support at the hospital after being admitted on May 15, later died on May 19.
Her daughter has now claimed that doctors at the hospital intubated her mother in an effort to keep her quiet about the sexual assault.
The victim’s daughter said she had spoken to the women’s wing of the Jan Adhikar Party (JAP), a political party in Bihar, about her mother’s sexual assault.
She said: ‘My mother walked into the hospital on her own and despite having symptoms her health condition was satisfactory, to say the least. In the ICU of the hospital, she was molested by three men on May 16.
‘It was my mother who informed me about the whole incident after her health deteriorated.
‘I also spoke to relatives apart from the JAP about the sexual harassment and misbehaviour with my mother.’
The patient’s daughter said hospital staff asked her to sign a form because her mother’s condition was critical and she needed to be put on ventilator support.
However, the victim’s daughter believes that doctors intubated her mother in an effort to keep her quiet about the attack.
She added: ‘They declared her dead. However, I suspect that the doctors intubated her because they wanted her not to record her statement before the police. This hospital should be shut down.’
Ramashankar Singh, the Station house officer at Shastrinagar police station, is currently investigating the accusations.
The National Commission for Women (NCW) has also taken the matter into their own hands after its chairperson Rekha Sharma wrote to the Bihar government and police to investigate the matter.
Meanwhile, the Duty Magistrate of Patna, ML Khan, confirmed that the body has been sent for a post-mortem after the victim’s daughter claimed her mother was sexually assaulted inside the hospital.
They said: ‘The complaint was received from the deceased’s person’s daughter against the hospital; however, the names of the accused were not mentioned in the complaint.
‘The hospital administration has cited coronavirus infection as the cause of her death, but the complainant maintained that her mother had undergone sexual assault. We are investigating the matter and post-mortem report will reveal whether she was sexually assaulted or not.’
The hospital has insisted that the victim died due to complications from Covid-19 and P.D. Gupta from Paras hospital management has dismissed the allegations of sexual assault.
In a statement, the hospital administration said that the patient was put on mechanical invasive ventilation after struggling to maintain proper saturation.
The statement read: ‘The patient was admitted to the Covid ICU of our hospital on May 15, with symptoms of Covid.
‘On May 16 evening, the patient had become restless and was not maintaining proper saturation on high flow oxygen. The doctors decided to put her on CPAP support. The patient was very restless and was still not maintaining proper saturation, thus a group of clinicians decided to put her on mechanical invasive ventilation.
‘The patient after being put on ventilation did not show signs of recovery and her vitals and other parameters kept deteriorating. The poor prognosis of the patient was explained to the next of kin on several occasions. Unfortunately, the patient lost her battle with Covid on the morning of May 19.
‘The patient’s daughter has alleged that the patient had been molested by three personnel, whom she was unable to identify between 6 pm of May 16 and 11am of May 17.
‘This matter was taken up by the hospital management and an internal enquiry was done based on the same. After the investigation, the hospital management had shared its conclusion with the appropriate authorities that such an incident did not happen in the premises of the hospital.’
Earlier today, rows and rows of shallow graves were partially exposed along the banks of the river Ganges in northwestern India by heavy rains.
The remains of coronavirus victims were among the hundreds buried at the cremation ground in Shringverpur village, which sits next to the city of Prayagraj.
Horrifying pictures showed the vast scale of the site, where the small grave mounds were covered with saffron cloth.
Municipal staff were working to recover the graves and chase away stray dogs who had been spotted in the area.
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