Luminara Aesthetic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 50.3/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #14 of 14 ranked clinics · last checked 17 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Non-surgical aesthetic clinic in Galle led by aesthetician-cosmetologist founders with a named medical officer providing aesthetic-medicine treatments and a named Ayurvedic practitioner. The medical officer's registration was found in the Section 29 medical-practitioner register, dated a recent 2025 entry; no Section 39B specialist entry exists.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 4.9 out of 5 · reviews: 64 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 4 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Found in the register with a current status; the register does not disclose the specialty, or discloses a different one (including “no specialisation”), and the clinic claims no protected title. The register's own line is shown on the profile. Found only in the Section 29 register (reg_no 47697, registered 2025-07-04); no Section 39B specialist entry. [slmc] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Named; role unclear. Medical officer and Ayurvedic practitioner named with role and qualifications, tied to the single Bataganwila address; clinic leadership (Founder & Director, Founder & CEO) are aestheticians/cosmetologists rather than physicians. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Licence claimed without a number. Section 29 register, reg_no 47697 (registered 2025-07-04): PITIGALA KANKANAMGE DON THARINDU SHEHAN — name components match a recently registered doctor consistent with the site's description of an early-career medical officer undertaking aesthetic-medicine fellowship training. [v1.3 2026-09-22: number not found on the clinic pages → claimed without a number] [slmc] [site] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 17 September 2026 — 0 matching rows (Whole PHSRC Registered Institutes table (374 rows, 11 sections) re-fetched and parsed on 2026-09-17 and searched for the clinic name, its brand tokens, its legal entity and the named physicians; no matching row. The register exists but returns no record for this clinic — absence is not evidence that) Register queried, no record found. Whole PHSRC Registered Institutes table (374 rows, 11 sections) re-fetched and parsed on 2026-09-17 and searched for the clinic name, its brand tokens, its legal entity and the named physicians; no matching row. The register exists but returns no record for this clinic — absence is not evidence that it is unregistered. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-17 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The clinic names the legal entity or the responsible person in its legal notice and the record is found by name; or the number the clinic publishes leads to an entity with a different name that is tied to this location by the same address or the same responsible person. eROC company search: 'LUMINARA AESTHETIC', PV00343299. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://luminaraaesthetic.lk/ — matched by name] [eroc] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Partial, without issuers. The Ayurvedic practitioner's SLAMC registration number (17289) is published with issuer; no SLMC number published for the medical officer. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. Single soft superlative on the home page. [site] Sri Lanka's premier destination for advanced non-surgical cosmetic treatments |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 18 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-17 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. Home page loaded on 2026-09-17; the site publishes no sitemap and the footer Refund Policy and Terms and Conditions links resolve to an empty anchor. None of the five document classes is published. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-17 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Don Shehan Pitigala [site] [slmc] | Medical Officer; Aesthetic Medicine (FCAM Fellowship, India) | 47697 |
| Dr. Malmi Koththagoda [site] | Registered Medical Practitioner (Ayurveda), Aesthetic Medicine & Skin Care | SLAMC 17289 |
Legal entity: Luminara Aesthetic · PV00343299 [eroc]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: spa or salon addon (focus adjustment -5) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: could not verify
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://luminaraaesthetic.lk/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +94 71 926 3263 |
| Address | No. 26, Sri Hemamanda Mawatha, Bataganwila, Galle, Sri Lanka |
| City | Galle |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://luminaraaesthetic.lk/ | clinic's own site | physicians, roles, address, phone, treatment menu, offers | 31 August 2026 |
| slmc | https://renewal.slmc.gov.lk/practitioner/getData?category=SEC29&las… | official register | medical licence — GET category=SEC29&lastname=PITIGALA, reg_no 47697 | 31 August 2026 |
| eroc | https://erocapiv2.drc.gov.lk/api/v1/eroc/name/search | official register | legal entity — POST {criteria:1, searchtext:"LUMINARA"} returned {"name":"LUMINARA AESTHETIC","registration_no":"PV00343299"} | 31 August 2026 |
| phsrc | https://phsrc.lk/pages_e.php?id=12 | official register | facility registration — GET https://phsrc.lk/pages_e.php?id=12, whole 374-row Registered Institutes table parsed locally on 2026-09-17 | 17 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 3 → 2 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — rule 6 — the licence number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); licence claimed without a number) |
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://luminaraaesthetic.lk/ — matched by name) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: 3 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): a register miss is never a value — M4 = 3 was written for "register exists, no record found"; re-typed not_found with the logged query) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M9: null → 1 (Re-run the patient-document presence scan on the clinic site (v1.1 pass 1)) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → 3 (Re-run against the PHSRC Registered Institutes register (v1.1 pass 1)) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.