Very Shameful

In a brazen display of insensitivity, doctors at VSHospital refused to attend to an eight-yearold rape victim for 45 minutes asshe lay in the emergency ward, bleeding from her private parts and writhing inpain. That was not the end of Sunita's (name changed) harrowing experience.When the staff finally attended to her, they made the child relive the traumaby asking uncomfortable questions and discussing the incident among themselvesin front of her. The hospital's alleged delay in providing medical assistanceand the shameful behaviour of the staff is in clear violation of The Protectionof Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), 2012.