Dead body of lady-doctor who committed suicide ... found at doctor's quarters!

Dead body of lady-doctor who committed suicide ... found at doctor's quarters!

The dead body of a 31 year old lady-doctor who had suspiciously passed away was found at a doctor's official hostel last afternoon (23) afternoon.

The said lady-doctor has served as an Anaesthesist at the hospital and had been living separated from her husband as a result of some conflict of opinion with him, it was learned. When her relatives mentioned that there was no response when contacted over her phone, the place where she was living

was checked; in which instance it was possible to find that she had committed suicide by injecting a high dose of an anesthetic drug.

This married lady, 31 year old Dinusha Hettiarachchi had not made any response to calls made to her mobile phone from previous night onwards and her parents had made a request from doctors in the hospital, in which instance 2 doctors had visited her official residence and made a check when they had found her dead body reclining on a bed. Some injection needles were discovered beside her body.

This lady-doctor was married to a Judicial Medical Officer of this same hospital and there had been disputes between the two after which a divorce case too had been filed in Colombo District Courts, Nuwara Eliya Police Headquarters say. Chief Police Inspector Mr. Indika Udayanga, Officer-in-Charge of of Nuwara Eliya Police Station says that she had injected a high dose of an anesthetic drug while inside her room at the hospital doctors' hostel. The Police OIC further mentions that there are 3 other doctors resident in that room with the deceased lady-doctor and that she had committed suicide at a time when they were not present in the room.

Nuwara Eliya Magistrate Mr. Ruwan de Silva conducted an inquiry last afternoon in this connection after which instructions were given for the dead body to be directed to the Judicial Medical Officer of Kandy Teaching Hospital for the autopsy.