The ward is the only in-patient psychiatric facility in the country – and because it houses mentally ill patients, the unit has strict protocols – but 7News has learned that these regulations were ignored by hospital staff who failed to protect a female patient dealing with serious emotional trauma – so serious that she has been deemed unfit to face trial at this time.

7news has confirmed that the patient, a woman who is being held pending trial has been having what appears to be a relationship with a hospital driver. 7News has confirmed that nurses repeatedly buzzed the driver into the closed unit at night. He then visited the female in her room. The female, who, again, is there under the court's orders pending trial for serious charges, was also allowed by the nurses to leave the unit and visit her family.

Because of the sensitive nature of the case, we cannot disclose her name, but it's become a source of consternation for the Hospital Administration and the Ministry of Health.

We have confirmed also that on Sunday the Hospital administration rotated the psychiatric nurse practitioners that had been in the unit to another section of the hospital. Their involvement was considered central because the unit is closed, and they control the persons who are admitted with an electronic door.

A ministry of health spokesperson told us this evening that the hospital's preliminary investigation has been ongoing for the past two weeks. So far the administration cannot say definitively that the driver and the patient had sexual intercourse, but they do know that protocols were not followed in terms of the driver being in the psychiatric ward at irregular hours.