Chairman of the Sri Lanka Medical Council Prof. Carlo Fonseka has been admitted to the Colombo National Hospital due to a sudden illness.

Hospital sources said Fonseka was admitted to hospital last night due to a heart related problem.

They also added that his condition was not critical.

The SLMC head will be discharged soon, they said. 

Fonseka made news over the past few weeks over his stance against the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM).