KOCHI: It is a disgrace yet again for the former head of the general medicine department of Ernakulam General Hospital, as another case has surfaced accusing the doctor of sexual abuse. The second case is based on a complaint from a woman doctor now settled in the US. She faced abuse while working as a house surgeon at Ernakulam General Hospital in 2018.

The police had earlier registered a case on the complaint of another house surgeon a few days back. At the same time, the female doctor who filed the complaint now informed the police through e-mail that she did not want to proceed with the case. Minding the request, the police have decided to freeze the case for the time being.

According to the complaint, in 2018, the senior doctor misbehaved with her while she was undergoing a house surgency in the hospital. An urge to complain only touched her after seeing another complaint pop up in the news in recent times against the same doctor. Based on the email received, the Ernakulam Central Police filed a case against the senior doctor.

The first case was filed against the doctor on a complaint that he had behaved inappropriately in a private consultation room with an intern at the hospital. The female doctor, now in Dubai raised a complaint through Facebook and later complained to the superintendent of the general hospital. The incident happened back in 2019.

The superintendent forwarded this complaint to the police, but citing legal troubles, the FIR was registered only after receiving a new complaint from the female doctor. The doctor was about to be questioned in this case, and it was at this time that another female doctor came forward with a similar complaint.