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.