The specialist who allegedly assaulted a health assistant at the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital has been arrested.
Even now, the junior staff employees of that hospital are on strike protesting against the related incident.
The concerned doctor who was arrested is receiving treatment in a private hospital under police protection.
The doctor is scheduled to appear in court today.
The hospital staff alleges that the specialist involved in the incident came drunk and assaulted a female health assistant.
The junior staff of the hospital are protesting in front of the hospital until the law is implemented against the concerned doctor.