resident at D. B. Wijetunge Mawatha, Pilimathalawa has made a complaint to the Peradeniya Police alleging that his 14-year-old daughter had been subjected to a surgery on the wrong leg due to the negligence of doctors at the Peradeniya Teaching Hospital.

He has said in his complaint that he channelled an orthopaedic surgeon of the Peradeniya Hospital and took his daughter for examination for an achievement in her right knee. There after she was admitted to word 16 of the Peradeniya on February 20 for a surgery prescribed by the surgeon. The surgery was done by another assistant surgeon on March 1 at 9 am since the Consultant Surgeon who examined her was on a tour abroad.