There is a pandemic happening in our hospitals. I wonder how many women this has happened to and what exactly is going on in our hospitals.

It feels so unfair that we encourage the women we love to go to the hospital, believing they will be treated with dignity and professionalism, only to hear stories like this. Instead of receiving care, some of them come back carrying experiences they never imagined they would have to endure.

My girlfriend visited the hospital because she wasn’t seeing her period as frequently as she used to. She said something didn’t feel right. I told her to hold on for a while, hoping it would come naturally. Months later, when it finally did, she experienced heavy bleeding that lasted longer than the usual seven days. She ended up at the hospital, where she was required to do a urine test.

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She returned home with nothing but complaints about the doctor’s attitude toward her.

What did he do?

She told me the doctor she saw during the consultation commented that she had a sexy body. When she didn’t respond, he made an attempt to touch her. I told her not to return to the same doctor.

“If you go back and he is the one around, request to see another doctor. I don’t want anyone disturbing your peace.”

We have been together for almost a decade, eight years. We were still in school when we started dating. When everyone thought it was just a fling that would eventually pass, we held on to each other and kept pushing to achieve greater heights. The next step for us is marriage.

Another time she went for a check-up, he was the only doctor on duty, so she had no choice but to see him. During the first consultation, there had been a nurse in the room. This time, it was only him.

He gave her privacy to remove her underwear. While preparing to examine her, he slapped her private part the way someone would when they were about to become intimate with you. After that, he inserted his fingers inside her.

The story ended with her leaving the consulting room.

I honestly feel like there’s more to this story.

I love this girl so much, but I don’t know if I can handle the uncertainty of never knowing exactly what happened in that room. I also can’t get over the fact that another man did something like that to her. I’m scared those thoughts will stay in my mind and eventually affect how I treat her, even if I don’t want them to.

I know the doctor’s name, and I keep asking myself whether this was the first time he had done something like this or whether there are other women carrying similar stories in silence because they felt nobody would believe them.

To make things even harder, she didn’t tell me any of this back in January when it happened. She only opened up recently. Part of me understands that people process experiences like this differently and may need time before talking about them. Another part of me keeps asking why she waited so long.

It also turned out she was never pregnant. The urine test had raised that possibility, but further examinations later confirmed that the prolonged bleeding had been caused by a hormonal imbalance.

I Called My Girlfriend And Another Man Answered The Phone

Would I be unfair if I walked away from this relationship because I don’t think I can get past what happened, or is this something I should find a way to work through?

—Martey
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