Sri Lanka, June 18 -- Patients were forced to pay between Rs. 120,000 and Rs. 250,000 for a medical item labelled EVD, used in surgeries at a government hospital in 2022 that had been officially procured and supplied to a government hospital at just Rs. 17,500 (its current market value being around Rs. 46,500), the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) revealed yesterday.

Dr. Maheshi Surasinghe Wijayarathna, a specialist neurosurgeon and a clerk attached to the Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital along with a third individual, who worked in a private firm owned by the specialist neurosurgeon, have been arrested by the Bribery Commission over allegations of selling drugs at higher prices through a third ...