Patient Alleged Violation of Privacy During ECG, Hiranandani Hospital orders Probe

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The committee created for the investigation is expected to conduct a meeting on Monday.

Responding to the matter, the hospital spokesperson told "We will certainly investigate this incident in the next two working days and take appropriate action. The housekeeping staff was unaware of the patient inside and entered the cubicle to retrieve the ECG machine. He immediately rushed out and informed the nurse. The duty manager was informed and came to the emergency department. She investigated the matter and realised the error had been made unknowingly. However, the manager and the housekeeping staff and the nurse profusely apologized for the mistake."

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Medical Dialogues Team earlier reported on similar news that took place in Nanavati Hospital, Vile Parle where a woman accused a doctor of allegedly sexually harassing and molesting her in the hospital. 

The incident came into focus when a person who was at the hospital OPD at that time heard the woman screaming in anger leaving a doctor's room and said "What kind of hospital is this,…where doctors are touching a girl improperly in a room?". The person who overheard the woman took to social media and shared the incident.