Mentally deranged patient stabs Psychiatrist during channelling session!
A commotion flared up because of an incident where a certain patient had attempted to flee after stabbing during the process when a consultation channelling service was in progress at Colombo Nawaloka Hospital yesterday.
Activities of the hospital had commenced last evening (30) around 4 at the hospital as usual and the
name of the referred to patient too was in the list of patients who were to consult the doctor concerned. In this manner when the said patient's name was called and was permitted to gain access to the room, what he had done was keep continuously stabbing the doctor with a knife he had been hiding in his person with the motive of ending the doctor's life.
name of the referred to patient too was in the list of patients who were to consult the doctor concerned. In this manner when the said patient's name was called and was permitted to gain access to the room, what he had done was keep continuously stabbing the doctor with a knife he had been hiding in his person with the motive of ending the doctor's life.
Since the doctor was someone who engaged in psychological counselling, he had carried out treatment to his patients by staying alone in the room. Therefore, there was incidentally nobody who was to witness or prevent what this patient was upto. The doctor who sustained about 10 stab injuries of a serious nature had let out a shriek at which moment nurses of the hospital and other patients had arrived on the scene having heard his shrill at which moment the assailant had tried to beat a retreat. Subsequently security guards of the hospital had apprehended him by surrounding him and handed him over to the police.
Psychiatrist Mr. Roshan Mahendra Mendis (41) who received fatal injuries in this connection was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the same hospital and the person who was responsible for this attack was a 31 year old youth living in Ratthanapitiya area in Boralesgomuwa and he had on a previous occasion too undergone mental treatment from this doctor, it is reported. He had alleged that when undergoing treatment on a previous date by this doctor the latter had harassed him; so saying a few days prior to this too he had ambushed the doctor in this very same manner and had tried to attack him at a time when the doctor happened to be walking along the corridor. Though security guards had tried to overpower him and hand him over to the police, the doctor who took compassion on him taking into consideration the mental condition of the patient has instructed that the issue be cut short without dragging it any further. In this particular incident of course he had carried out the stabbing attack by coming inside the room just a few days after securing the permission he had so got.
The suspect was ultimately taken into custody by Slave Island Police together with the knife used on the occasion. According to hospital sources, the doctor who was seriously injured was subjected to a surgery last night itself as the doctor has been stabbed in his neck region.
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