Health Care

Hospital patient raped by male nurse’s aide: police

A man being treated at a Staten Island hospital was drugged and then raped by a ♚male nurse’s aide, the victim and police sources said.

The 37-year-old patient was recuperatin🍎g from pneumonia at Richmond University Medical Center when the alleged attack occurred on Wednesday, the sources💞 said Saturday.

The aide is believed to have ordered a big dose of Benadryl for the patient, which ma🤪de him groggy.

“He asked one of the nurses to give me something to help me sleep,” the patient told The Post. “He wait💝ed for it to take effect and then he told me to come to the bathroom.’’

The man said he was pushed against a wall and sodomized, adding, “It happened quick. I was too messed up on medication 💜to do anything about it.”

The hospital said it suspended the suspect and is cooperating wit✃h the police.