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A hospital secretly video recorded 1,800 female patients using hidden cameras at the women’s health center in El Cajon , according to a lawsuit filed in the California supreme court.

Women were recorded undressing, giving birth and undergoing gynecological and other procedures using hidden cameras, the lawsuit filed by 81 of the women claims.

RT reports: Sharp Grossmont Hospital set up hidden cameras in three operating rooms in their women’s health center in El Cajon between July 2012 and June 2013. The motion-activated cameras filmed women giving birth, undergoing hysterectomies, sterilizations and miscarriage procedures, with the cameras capturing the women’s faces and “their most sensitive genital areas,” the suit filed in the California Supreme Court on Friday reads.

The hospital said it was recording as part of an investigation into whether an employee was stealing the anesthesia drug propofol. The cameras were located on the drug carts in the…