In East Surrey Hospital, there is a ward called Smallfield. It has four rooms called bays. There are two bays where male patients sleep and two where female patients sleep.
The bays are laid out like this :
1 c 2 1 is for females 2 for males
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3 r 4 3 is for males and 4 is for females
r
^ = a corridor through the ward
With the doors of each bay left open for staff convenience, it is easy to imagine women watching the naked back of men as they leave the shower room by the bay doors.
There are two women patients who enter the male bay looking for various things or people. On their visits, a member of staff from their bay follows the women into the men's bay and doesn't physically stop them from entering the men's bay. The women are slightly unbalanced and if someone touches them they scream at length. Now, in my opinion if a male patient entered a female patient bay and looked at each patient at length, irrespective of the state of their dress, the ward staff would likely call security to evict the male patient. This doesn't happen if a female patient enters a male bay.
I felt unsafe in my bed as I felt that a female patient could look through the gap in the curtains and see me undressed.
"I feel unsafe in my bed"
About: East Surrey Hospital / Trauma and orthopaedics East Surrey Hospital Trauma and orthopaedics Redhill RH1 5RH
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