Caught raping a patient during her own delivery, an anesthesiologist was arrested for rape of a vulnerable person, in the early hours of Monday (11), at the Heloneida Studart State Women’s Hospital, in São João de Meriti, in Baixada Fluminense.
The victim was drugged because he was undergoing a cesarean section and the action was filmed by members of the medical team, who denounced the anesthesiologist.
Giovanni Quintella Bezerra, 32, was arrested after health care workers filmed him, with a cell phone, as he passed his penis across the patient’s face while she was unconscious and lying on a stretcher. The images also show that the organ was introduced into the parturient’s mouth, while the team worked on the surgery.
In the images, Bezerra was away from the medical team, who could not see what he was doing, due to the isolation made by the surgical field, which delimits the area of the body where the procedure is performed. To the Civil Police, the employees reported that they had been suspecting the amount of sedatives applied by the anesthesiologist to pregnant women and, therefore, decided to leave a cell phone filming the professional in the procedure.
President of the Regional Council of Medicine of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Cremerj), Clóvis Munhoz, highlights that the body received complaints and opened a precautionary procedure for the immediate suspension of the doctor, due to the severity of the images. “The Cremerj will institute, after the precautionary procedure, a disciplinary process of cassation”, she said.
The State Department of Health (SES) and the management of the unit reported that, triggered by the medical team, they reported the crime to the Civil Police, who went to the unit and arrested the anesthetist in the act.
According to the ministry, Bezerra is not a civil servant of the state, has the title of specialist in anesthesiology, regular registration with the Regional Council of Medicine (CRM) and has been working for six months as a legal entity for the unit and for the Getúlio Vargas State Hospital, in the North of Rio de Janeiro.
The SES and the Health Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro reported that “an internal investigation will be opened to take administrative measures, in addition to the notification to Cremerj”. The team at the São João de Meriti medical unit said that it provides, at this moment, all support to the victim and family members.
Giovanni Quintella Bezerra is incarcerated at the Women’s Police Station in São João de Meriti. Sought, the anesthesiologist’s defense informed that he has not yet obtained access to the testimonies and evidence, and that he will only manifest after he manages to examine the entirety of the records.
Source: CNN Brasil
