Amritsar • Angry family members and sympathisers of a four-year-old girl yesterday blocked traffic and demanded police action against the erring doctors for allegedly removing a kidney that led to her death the previous night.

Sonia Dubey, a resident of Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh had been undergoing treatment for a tumour in her belly at the government Medical College here. The family members have blamed the doctors that a kidney was removed from her without their knowledge. The girl died in pain at a private nursing home after her belly swelled rapidly.

Parents found out about her missing kidney only after she was admitted to the nursing home, where her condition deteriorated. Doctors at the hospital informed the parents that one of her kidneys had been removed.

Family members protested outside the office of district authorities, demanding that a murder case be registered against the principal of the government medical college, J P Kaur Shergill, and other doctors who had operated upon Sonia and removed her kidney recently.

Shergill and another doctor, who performed the operation, were suspended last week by medical education and research minister Tikshan Sud. A probe panel of senior doctors was set up to investigate the matter.

"My child was killed by these doctors. They should be punished for this," an inconsolable Shridhar Dubey, father of the girl said.