This was my personal experience in a hospital in Cork late last year. I felt like I was being raped with some implement inside of me for about 15 minutes. Transported to some foreign country.

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I was in for a biopsy last year for a prostate checkup and when I entered the ward there was an Irish person at the desk. I was shown to the bed and from then on nearly all the staff were not Irish. Having given all my information to someone before I got to the ward as I just sat on the bed this girl from India arrived, I found it very difficult to understand what she was saying to me. Now I'll be honest she was very polite but her accent was very strong.

This prostate biopsy is a very intrusive procedure, I had no idea why I was being forced to give my personal and medical information to someone from a foreign country, especially to someone from one of the scamming capitals of the planet, it made me very uneasy.

The surgeon was from India if I'm not mistaken, but was really, really rough during the procedure, I felt like I was being raped with some implement inside of me for about 15 minutes, I'm not sure how long it took. I never experienced anything like it. I am not being melodramatic here, it was a horrendous experience, I couldn't sit down properly for days after. I actually felt traumatized after the procedure.

Later on, I was waiting to be discharged, I was standing by the bed and this guy, maybe a nurse, from I would say Africa came to talk to me but I couldn't understand what he was saying, I couldn't understand, was he telling me to go or not. So I stand out in the isle between the beds trying to get a doctors attention, when a nurse who was passing abused me and told me not to be standing there go back to the bed area. She refused to talk to me. So I am left sitting there for about another twenty minutes to half an hour. I was really glad to be getting out of there I can tell you that. Most of the staff in that ward were not Irish.

To be honest I felt that I was physically raped of my dignity during the procedure and secondly my ethnicity disrespected in an Irish hospital.

It was like I was transported to some foreign country with no way of escaping or asking for help. This is certainly on par with what is happening in our nursing homes.