Female patient alleges sexual harassment by nursing staff at Delhi Hospital

New Delhi: A 27-year-old female patient was allegedly sexually harassed and locked in a washroom by a nursing staff at Delhi Cantonment Board Hospital in southwest Delhi. The police said that the accused had been arrested.

The woman was allegedly molested on Wednesday when she was under observation in the ICU, they said.

A nursing staff of the hospital, who was on night duty, did inappropriate acts with her in a washroom and locked her inside it, an officer said.

The officer said the woman told her husband about the staff’s misbehaviour and subsequently, police were called.

The victim was counselled and a case under the appropriate section has been registered, he said.