KARACHI: The Gulshan-i-Iqbal police on Wednesday arrested a ward boy of a private hospital allegedly for attempted sexual assault on a physically challenged woman patient being treated in the intensive care unit of the health facility, officials said.
Arshad Rana, the victim’s husband, said that he had brought his wife to the Rab Medical Centre two days ago in critical condition. The doctors had admitted his wife to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and asked the family to go home as the hospital administration would look after the patient.
Rana said that he is a resident of North Nazimabad Block R and had gone home on the doctors’ advice.
“Early in the morning a man approached the police with a complaint saying that his wife was attacked by a member of staff at a private hospital in Block 2, Gulshan-i-Iqbal,” said an official at the Gulshan police station.
“He told police that his wife was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday evening and by night the doctors shifted her to the ICU owing to her serious condition.
The hospital administration asked the family to leave to return on Wednesday as no attendant was allowed with a patient in the ICU.”
According to police officials, they obtained CCTV footage of the hospital premises and the ward where the woman was admitted. The CCTV footage clearly showed the ward boy closing the door of the ward and locking it behind him.
Later, police claimed to have arrested the ward boy. They added that the suspect had confessed to the crime during the initial interrogation.
Police have registered a case of the alleged sexual assault against the arrested ward boy and have started further investigation.
