Junior, PG doctors stage protest

Tirupati, Mar 12 (UNI) Demanding the release of their colleague, arrested last week on charges of molesting a minor girl patient, the junior and Post-Graduate doctors of RUIA Government Hospital today staged a novel protest by posing themselves as patients in front of the hospital here.

Hospital sources said about 200 juniors and PG doctors after enrolling their names in the Out Patient register, shouted slogans against the illegal arrest of their colleague Radiologist Doctor Kondala Rao and demanded that the girl's family withdraw the complaint lodged with the police.

The girl's family, in a complaint to the police last week, submitted that the Radiologist had molested the 13-year-old girl, while carrying out the CT scan.

Based on their complaint, the police had arrested the Radiologist.

UNI