Following a complaint filed at the National Women´s Commission (NWC) by a panicked victim, the latter has sought clarifications in this regard from the hospital management.[break]
Sita Limbu (name changed) showed clippings of the video footage to NWC officials on March 10. She said that it was forwarded to her by Dr. Raj Rana of Norvic Hospital located at Thapathali, Kathmandu. She showed similar clippings of some other patients as well.
The woman said that Dr. Rana, an orthopaedic surgeon at Norvic, needs to be arrested. Footage of naked parts of the patients´ bodies, which look like they were filmed when the women were unconscious, were shown by her, according to Mohana Ansari, spokesperson at NWC. “Some other videos were even more disturbing.”
“Our guess is that the woman who came to us actually had friendly relations with the doctor earlier, as she had been taking treatment under him since two months. We cannot comment on their relationship, but we believe she ultimately became a victim of ill intention,” Ansari told Republica.
“She was shocked when she came to know that the doctor had a number of vulgar clippings of other women also. The doctor showed the video to her to blackmail her,” Ansari said, referring to the victim´s complaint.
After a detailed study of the case and three days of consultations, NWC sent a letter to the hospital management on March 14. But the hospital has not responded so far.
“We have waited for a week and if they don´t respond soon, we are going to take matters into our own hands,” Ansari said. “What the doctor has done is a crime; it is against medical ethics.”
According to Ansari, this is not the first time NWC has received such complaints.
Recently also, a woman came to NWC after a doctor who had been treating her took similar advantage. “The damage had been done; so she settled for compensation on the condition of closing the matter,” Ansari said. So far, three cases of this nature, excluding Limbu´s, have been registered at the commission.
“Exploitation of female patients must be rampant across the country, but there is no NWC presence anywhere else. Otherwise we would have received many such cases,” Ansari said, adding that the Norvic case has drawn greater attention for obvious reasons. “It is one of the most reputed hospitals in the capital.”
Dr. Rana was not available at the hospital when Republica sought his comment on the allegation. However, deputy general manager and spokesperson at Norvic, R.P Mainali, said that the case has already been investigated and the management has reached a decision. He hinted that matters have been sorted out.
“But I cannot disclose anything now,” he said. “May be after around a week it will be made public.”
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