AMARACHI OKEH writes about the low level of awareness of the rights of patients and how this puts females at risk of sexual harassment

Lola froze with shock on the examination bed in the consultation room when a male doctor who was examining her said, “See what you have done to me; you have made me ‘hard.’”

Not convinced that his 28-year-old patient heard him and unbothered about his action, the doctor pulled one of her hands towards his groin in a bid to make her touch his penis. Confused and wishing what was happening right before her eyes was not real, she swallowed saliva forming in her mouth as her heart raced.

Unable to bear the harassment and in a bid to avoid what looked could turn out to be rape, Lola jumped up and ran to the reception of the medical facility located in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State.

In the waiting area crowded with medical workers and patients, she was unable to utter a word. As she tried to put herself together, she could feel the fear coursing through her body.

While on a bus on her way home that day, the tears she tried hard to hold back began to pour. She could only feel helpless, having trusted the medical workers at the facility she had been using for the past two years.

She wondered why things suddenly went wrong and why the male doctor who had treated her for the same ailment for two years suddenly wanted to make her his sexual prey.

She had assumed she was in safe hands especially because her father’s friend, who is a medical doctor, had referred them (she and her father) to the facility and the doctor had managed her case so well that she became comfortable with his services until 2021. READ FULL STORY >>> https://www.newsfill.com.ng/2024/02/patients-struggle-with-hospital-sexual.html

Madness everywhere

end time doctors

I can bet you the doctor is from the Waste. Search all the rape news and sexual harassment, 95% of them both in Nigeria and abroad are committed by them.