Skin Clinic Sri Lanka
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 51.1/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #12 of 14 ranked clinics · last checked 17 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Dermatology and aesthetic-treatment clinic in Bambalapitiya operating since 1956, with a named physician holding a dermatology qualification. A Section 29 medical-practitioner register entry with a matching name and a dermatology postgraduate qualification could not be tied to the clinic with full certainty; no Section 39B specialist entry was found.
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 out of 5 · reviews: 510 |
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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, the clinic's phone number.
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 14686); no Section 39B specialist entry. [slmc] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Named; role unclear. Physician named, tied to the single Lauries Road address; role given as general/founding physician rather than a specific title. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Licence claimed without a number. Section 29 register, reg_no 14686: DE SILVA UPENDRA DIKSHA, MD (Dermatology) Philadelphia — name and dermatology qualification consistent with the clinic's physician, but the given-name order ('Upendra' vs. 'Upendra Diksha') is not an exact match; no Section 39B specialist entry found. [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 Found with a spelling discrepancy; or the location is registered under the name of the host facility at the same address (a practice inside a hospital or a centre); or the value comes from a mirror or from a directory that shows no status — the profile names the record holder verbatim. PHSRC Registered Institutes list, 'Fulltime MS' (full-time medical specialist) section: 'Dr. Upendra De Silva', PHSRC/FMS/03 — the practice is registered under the physician's own name rather than the trading name, and the register publishes neither address nor status, so the match rests on the practitioner name alone. [phsrc] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-17 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. The clinic publishes no legal entity on any of the pages surveyed on 2026-09-17 — no company name, no registration number and no Pvt Ltd or PLC suffix anywhere, including the legal and terms pages. Brand only. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-17 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence or registration numbers published on the site. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. No guarantee or superlative language found on the pages surveyed; the site cites years of operation as a factual claim. [site] |
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. |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-31 |
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. Upendra De Silva [site] | Physician | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
- 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://skinclinic.lk/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +94 11 258 8679 |
| Address | 32, Lauries Road, Bambalapitiya, Colombo 4, Sri Lanka |
| City | Colombo |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://skinclinic.lk/ | clinic's own site | physician, address, phone, treatment menu | 31 August 2026 |
| site2 | https://skinclinic.lk/about-us | clinic's own site | about page — surveyed for consent/risk/aftercare/complaint content (none found) | 31 August 2026 |
| slmc | https://renewal.slmc.gov.lk/practitioner/getData?category=SEC29&las… | official register | medical licence — GET category=SEC29&lastname=DE SILVA&name=UPENDRA, reg_no 14686 | 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 no_number_on_record); licence claimed without a number) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Re-run against the eROC company register and the clinic site (v1.1 pass 1)) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → 4 (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.