A month after a 5-year-old was raped on the premises of St George Hospital in SoBo, her family is now receiving threats from friends of the accused. The accused, a 25-year-old unemployed man, is the son of a Class IV employee, who lives in the hospital quarters. The little girl and her parents were at St George Hospital for her mother’s treatment earlier this month. The accused had lured the little girl with the promise of chocolates before assaulting her.

This is not the lone incident of women being at the receiving end of sexual frustration at medical institutions. Numerous reports of molestation and assaults on women inside clinics and in hospital residential quarters have made headlines in recent times. What it proves is that a medical campus is no longer safe for women or children. Ironically, this is where people are meant to go to heal.