A 19-year-old girl who tested positive to Covid-19 was allegedly raped by an ambulance driver taking her to the hospital.
On Saturday night, September 5, the teenage girl was reportedly attacked by the ambulance driver identified as V Noufal, 29, while on their way to the Firstline COVID Treatment Centre in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala, India.
Noufal was arrested on Sunday morning September 6, after the victim told a staff of the hospital about the alleged incident when she arrived in Pandalam.
Upon investigations by the police, they found out that he had not obtained the mandatory clearance certificate before enlisting as a driver.
India’s health minister KK Shailaja described the attack in Kerala as ‘shocking’ and ‘inhuman’.
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A health department official told The Indian Express that the driver is usually sent alone to a particular locality to pick up patients to limit the exposure of health workers.
The official said: ‘The driver’s chamber is partitioned and no other staff or nurse accompanies the driver while ferrying patients to the hospital.
‘This is to limit the exposure of health workers to infected persons. In rare cases, if the patient is serious, we send a nurse. In this case, both patients were stable.’
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The attack is following in a series of high profile sexual offenses in India. Last week, a three-year-old girl was raped and strangled in the Lakhimpur Kher district, of Uttar Pradesh.
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