Showing posts with label Ontario. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ontario. Show all posts

Friday, April 24, 2015

Windsor psychiatrist Dr. Ravi Shenava charged with sexual assault

from the the Windsor Star

Dr. Ravi Shenava, 64, attended police headquarters March 9 and was arrested and subsequently charged. Police launched an investigation after a 28-year-old woman came forward Jan. 30, alleging a sexual assault had occurred at her psychiatrist’s office that day.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Windsor police at 519-255-6700, ext. 4830, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 519-258-8477, online at www.catchcrooks.com or at Submit a Tip on Facebook.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Prashant Tiwari's family files $12.5M lawsuit after suicide in Brampton, Ontario hospital

As reported by the CBC

Many more details at the link

Members of a Brampton, Ont., family have launched a $12.5-million lawsuit after a 20-year-old man was found dead in the bathroom of the hospital where he was supposed to be on suicide watch.

Prashant Tiwari committed suicide last June at Brampton Civic Hospital while under treatment, the lawsuit alleges, adding he had been admitted to the psychiatric ward after he had started cutting himself.

Rakesh Tiwari alleges his son was left unattended in a hospital bathroom for three hours. During that time, the 20-year-old used his hospital gown and a chair to hang himself, his father said.

"He volunteered himself to the hospital. He knew he had some problem, and he was fighting and he needed help," said Rakesh Tiwari.

"He was not to die."

Tiwari believes staff were supposed to check on his son every 15 minutes.

"My son should not have been unattended," he said.

A lengthy statement of claim — filed at Brampton's Superior Court of Justice on Wednesday — names the hospital and numerous employees as defendants, and lays out a timeline of what happened to Prashant Tiwari in the hospital.

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After his death, the statement of claim alleges, 12 people accessed Prashant’s medical records without proper authorization for unknown reasons.

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