Doctor injured in attack by Berty’s supporters in ICU
Doctor injured in attack by Berty’s supporters in ICU
Dr. Chamila Herath, injured yesterday night in an attack by a group of supporters of UPFA chief ministerial candidate for North – Central PC election who were decorating an election office, has been admitted to the neurosurgery section of the ICU at Anuradhapura Hospital say hospital sources. He was being treated at Ward 11 when he was brought after the attack.
The sources say the injured doctor is not affiliated to any political party but the perpetrators had attacked him using their political power.
When Dr. Herath was driving to the hospital last night the group that had been decorating the election office had obstructed him. When he said it was necessary for him to go to the hospital the group had opened the door of the car and had attempted to drag the doctor out of it. When the doctor locked up the doors the perpetrators had hit him on his face and head through open shutters. Several had hit the windscreen with poles they carried and had smashed it while more than twenty people had surrounded the car and battered it.
The doctor, despite injuries to his head and face, had driven the car to the hospital. The doctors in the hospital had admitted Dr. Chamila Herath to ward 11 and had complained to Anuradhapura police station.
The doctors in all the hospitals in the area are engaged in a strike action protesting against the inhuman attack and demand that all 20 to 25 persons who were involved in the attack should be arrested. They warn that if the perpetrators are not arrested they would launch a continuous strike from the 3rd.
The government is attempting to stop the strike by doctors spreading a false story that one Basnayake, the person alleged to have led the attack, had been arrested. However, when inquired by doctors, the police had stated that no such person had been arrested.
