Sri Lanka, March 11 -- The Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) has decided to launch an island-wide 24-hour token strike tomorrow in protest over the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital.

The token strike is to commence from 8.00 a.m. tomorrow (12 March) as decided during the executive committee meeting of the GMOA this evening (11).

Doctors and staff at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital commenced a strike this morning demanding the immediate arrest of the individual who allegedly sexually assaulted a female doctor at the hospital's dormitory for medical officers last night (10).

According to Ada Derana reporter, the victim, a 32-year-old female doctor, had returned to her quarters after ...