Missing doctor emerges at pilgrims' rest

Chaminda Perera and Chitrarathna Kaluarachchi

The speculation surrounding the missing anesthetist attached to the Matara General Hospital came to an end yesterday when she was found at a pilgrims' rest in Anuradhapura.

She has confessed to the Police that she came all the way to Anuradhapura alone to participate in a Pooja at the Ruwanweli Maha Seya to invoke blessings on her ailing farther.

Dr. Erandi Kulasinghe had not returned to her husband's residence in Hikkaduwa though she had left the hospital for Hikkaduwa in her car on Friday evening.

The Police found the lady doctor in the Anuradhapura sacred city area.

Supirintendant of Police in charge of Anuradhapura Division, Mahesh Herath told the media that she had come to Anuradhapura on her own accord and she was not subjected to any harassment.

The Government Medical Officers Association in a media communique‚ expressed serious concern over the missing of the doctor on Monday morning.

It said that the doctor concerned had gone missing while she was on her way to her husband's house from the hospital.

The doctor who is residing in Uyanwatte goes to the house of her husband who is a Major attached to the Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps every weekend.

Police began a search for the missing lady doctor following a complaint made by her husband on Friday, on the directive of IGP N.K. Illangakoon.