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📰 From the news 1 Nov 2026

A stethoscope, a forged Ayurvedic certificate and a fake government medical officer's ID: Horana police arrest a 52-year-old 'doctor' accused of Rs 50 million fraud, June 2026

In Sri Lanka a doctor must be registered with the Sri Lanka Medical Council, and an Ayurvedic practitioner with the Ayurvedic Medical Council, before treating …

📍 Horana, Sri Lanka

📰 From the news 12 Oct 2026

Two men aged 33 and 62, forged documents and Rs 1.5 million of medicines: the Meegalewa 'doctors' arrested by Sri Lanka's anti-vice unit in Kurunegala district

Sri Lanka has one statutory register of medical practitioners, kept by the Sri Lanka Medical Council, and only a person named on it may lawfully treat patients…

📍 Kurunegala, Sri Lanka

📰 From the news 24 Sep 2026

"Over 40,000 fake doctors": the doctors' union's warning, the Health Ministry's island-wide probe, and the Rs 60 million "doctor" arrested in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's medical profession is small, tightly registered and, according to its own doctors' union, surrounded by a far larger population of people who pract…

📍 Colombo, Sri Lanka

📰 From the news 12 Sep 2026

A legal degree the medical council would not register: SAITM, the private college Sri Lanka abolished by Act of Parliament

Not every ruined medical education involves a fraudster. Sri Lanka's SAITM case involved a licensed institution, a court that ruled in the students' favour, an…

📍 Malabe, Sri Lanka

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