A ban on MBBS doctors

The facility of performing surgery by doctors with M.B.B.S (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) that existed has been withdrawn through the Registration Certificate issued for them by Sri Lanka Medical Council state government doctors.

Accordingly, these doctors will be denied the legal right to perform surgeries in government as well as private hospitals and will affect the surgeries in hospitals as majority of surgeries performed in both government and private hospitals are handled by medical officers said a senior government doctor.

Speaking further he has said the certificate issued to doctors by the Sri Lanka Medical Council until now had stated that the medical practitioner was lawfully qualified to practice medicine and surgery. However, the certificate issues at present states that medical practitioner has lawfully qualified to ‘practice medicine only.’ He said the doctors have been slyly removed from performing surgery and they will now be able to perform surgeries under the supervision of medical consultants only.