Sri Lanka, June 25 -- During the ongoing corruption case involving Dr. Maheshi Surasinghe Wijerathna, a consultant neurosurgeon at Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital, the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) told court yesterday that she had allegedly performed surgeries on brain-dead patients.

According to submissions by the Commission, the neurosurgeon had performed surgical procedures such as the insertion of External Ventricular Drains (EVDs) and Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts on patients who had already been medically classified as brain-dead. In some instances, CIABOC alleged, patients had been dead for up to five days with only their heartbeat artificially sustained when the procedures were c...