Patient dies after doctor's medicine

Prasad Poornamal

A tense situation prevailed in the Kalpitiya area last evening when a patient died after a particular drug was given to him by a doctor at a private dispensary. North Western Health Minister Ashoka Wadigamangawa stated that he learnt that the doctor was attached to the Kalpitiya Hospital and that he instructed the authorities to conduct a detailed investigation into the incident.

Sources also revealed that after the patient's death around 200 relatives and close associates surrounded the Kalpitiya Hospital creating a tense situation. The body of the victim is at the Kalpitiya hospital.