81 women sue California hospital for secretly recording them during childbirth, gynecological surgeries

SAN DIEGO (April 2, 2019) – Eighty-one women are suing Sharp Grossmont Hospital in San Diego after learning they were secretly recorded by hidden cameras installed in the hospital’s gynecology operating rooms. The laptop cameras were installed on anesthesia carts in the operating rooms to address a drug theft issue at the hospital, a hospital spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. But from July 2012 to June 2013, roughly 1,800 women were recorded in the three operating rooms at the hospital’s women’s center, according to a complaint filed in California Supreme Court last week. The motion-sensing cameras recorded footage of childbirths, emergency C-sections, miscarriages, hysterectomies, sterilizations, and a variety of other procedures. The videos even showed the women’s faces as they entered the hospital rooms for their operations. Some women were recorded while undressing, and some were unconscious during their procedures. None of the women…

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