Batticloe Docs Moved To Colombo And Other Safe Locations After Killing Of The Doctor In Navakkadu

Doctors Attached to the Government Hospitals in the Batticloe District Move to Colombo and Other Safe Locations Fearing their Security after A Doctor attached to the Navakkadu Hospital and the Malaivattu Central Dispensary was shot dead by an unidentified gunman yesterday(16) Night says Assistant Secretary of the Government Medical Officers Association(GMOA) Dr.Upul Gunasekera .All Fifty Eight Doctors in the Batticloe District including Seventeen Doctors attached to the Batticloe General Hospital were Moved away from their Hospitals today after The GMOA Requested them to do so he stressed.While Addressing a Press Brirfing in Colombo Today(17) he said that this Move is not a Trade Union Action and It's a Security Measure.Dr.S.W Palitha Kumara Was shot dead while he was at the Navakkadu hospital yesterday night.Meanwhile De fence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksha today Gave Assurance to the GMOA Delegation visited him that the Security of the Doctors in the Baticcloe Area will assured and a Senior Superintendant of Police Appointed to look into their Security Matters.