Psychiatric patient allegedly raped by hospital staff missing
A 32-year-old psychiatric patient at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu, Miss Nzubechi Igwe has allegedly been raped by a staff of the hospital and subsequently declared missing with five months pregnancy. The Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Ngozi Unogu, however, refused to make comment on the scandal despite being bombarded for response by newsmen. Narrating the ordeal, the elder brother of the victim, Mr. Israel Igwe, said her young sister, Nzubechi, has been experiencing some psychiatric symptoms to which her family sought urgent medical attention at the hospital and was admitted on August 9, 2024. Israel said while her sister was at the hospital he visited her often and was monitoring her progression and providing the necessary things that were required. He said: “One night while my sister was within the hospital premises, one security man at the hospital accosted her, lured her to a corner, in threatening violence and had non-consensual sexual ...