Mail - EXCLUSIVE: Patient claims she was sexually assaulted and threatened with rape during stays at two Scottish hospitals - and accuses NHS of 'culture of cover up' over horrific ordeals

[ResisterRex]

This is the stuff of nightmares. Apparently the hospital is in a mobile blackspot so you're totally reliant on others:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11638065/Patient-claims-sexually-assaulted-threatened-stays-two-NHS-hospitals.html

"Concern for patient welfare has been raised at two Scottish hospitals after an anonymous source spoke out about unwanted sexual encounters, including a man masturbating and urinating on her while she slept.

The 37-year-old woman, referred to only as 'Jane', has accused the NHS of a 'culture of cover up and keep quiet', after reporting incidents to staff who allegedly refused to call the police.
Jane claims the two encounters happened a year apart from each other in 2016 at Crosshouse Hospital and at the Woodlands View facility in 2017 - both facilities in Ayrshire.
Speaking on her experience at Crosshouse Hospital, Jane said: 'A man came and urinated and masturbated on me in my sleep.
'I reported it to the nurses, they said they would deal with it and they never did.
'I was really unwell at the time and the thing that bothered me the most was the nurses were so unsupportive.
'It wasn't like an outrage, it was like "oh that's happened". They sounded used to it.'"

Continues at link above.

Have I read that right - 1000 sexual assaults in (Scottish?) hospitals in a 2 year period?

Probably, the numbers are shocking. What proportion of them do you think were committed by women? 🤔

Was this in a mental health facility? I know a handful of women who have been in mixed-sex mental health facilities and only one of them wasn't sexually assaulted. Sexual assault and grooming by male patients and staff is endemic in those places. I really don't understand the safeguarding logic behind making them mixed-sex, especially when some of the male patients have serious criminal records. I know someone who was sectioned into a mixed-sex adult psychiatric hospital when she was 18 and she said she has never been anywhere so scary. She likened it to being locked up in a men's prison.

Appalling:
This is the other article the Mail has linked to about sexual abuse on mixed sex mental health wards:
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7860747/More-1-000-patients-sexually-abused-mixed-sex-NHS-mental-health-wards-2-5-years.html

Some men are already abusers avoiding jail by pleading mental health problems

I am effing outraged by this. I always knew the world was a cruel place, but I had no bl**dy idea just how cruel it was. Would the legislators who claim it is safe to place women in such danger put their money where their collective mouths are? Would they agree to go into a hospital ward where they will be completely vulnerable/be locked in a prison cell with someone who wants to rape/injure/kill them? Or are they happy for other women to be treated like that, but not themselves?

I've been to a mental health ward in the day when it's mixed. It's how you'd imagine to be for women. It's unacceptable - mental health or other types of conditions.

Medical Director Dr Crawford McGuffie said: 'Due to confidentiality reasons, NHS Ayrshire and Arran cannot comment on individual patient cases’

How convenient.

That's beyond horrific.

Fucking hell sturgeon, wake up!

I’m guessing if you have been sectioned on a mental health ward you are deemed not to have capacity so can’t be charged with a crime? So the police wouldn’t be called? But could the hospital itself have committed a crime by not protecting you?