ARCHIVED - Health centre cleaner cornered and raped in Alicante
The woman was attacked in broad daylight at San Juan Health Centre in Alicante on the Costa Blanca.
A construction worker has been arrested after a cleaner was allegedly cornered and raped at San Juan Health Centre in Alicante.
The shocking attack happened at around 3.30pm on Tuesday, June 8, when the employee of a cleaning company was sexually assaulted in a maintenance room.
The woman was locked inside the room for an hour before her attacker was arrested by the Guardia Civil.
The Columbian suspect, who has a criminal record, was reportedly working on an expansion at the health centre, a nine-month project which has been denounced by the Medical Union of the Valencia Region, Sindicato Medico, over the noise and dust medical staff have had to endure and the "behaviour of some construction workers".
As well as the disruption, the union has also expressed concerns about the fact the clinic is "unprotected" day and night and that there are no security guards due to a "lack of budget".
Sindicato Medico claims "the workers are free to roam wherever they want and whenever they want".
The union has written to the Regional Ministry of Health on numerous occasions and warned that while health staff are working on the top floor at the medical centre, they are "totally separated from their colleagues below".
Representatives claim the only response they have previously had from the health department is that staff at the centre must be "patient" while the construction work is being carried out.
IMAGE: San Juan GVA