OPD Doctors Of The Colombo Childrens Hospital Launched A 4 Hour Strike Against Assaulting A Doctor

All the doctors attached to the Out Door Patients Department(OPD) of the Sri Lanka's largest Children's Hospital the Lady Ridgway Childrens Hospital in Colombo today launched a 4 hour strike in protest against the pysical assault of a  Specialist Female Doctor of the hospital by a Father of a small child victim. The Female Doctor was assaulted by an angry father of a small child after the child died after admitted to the hospital last night.

Doctors launched the strike between 8 A.M to 12 Noon by paralysing the clinics of the OPD and put thousands of chidren who brought to the hospital for treatment in difficult position.

The father of the deceased child who is a resident in Colombo suburbs assaulted and trying attacked the female doctor with a knife which was prevented by the nurses of the ward this morning.The doctor was admitted to the Accident Service of the Colombo National Hospital for treatment.The father of the child was arrested by the Borella Police and due to produced before the courts today.