Dr Desigan Pillay — Lenmed Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 75.3/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #2 of 19 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Plastic and reconstructive surgery practice consulting at Lenmed Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre, Durban. The responsible surgeon is named with role on the hospital group’s own site and matched in the national specialist register.
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, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. Matched by registration number in HPCSA iRegister: ACTIVE, category contains SPECIALIST and PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, matching the advertised segment. [hpcsa-dpillay] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by licence number: ACTIVE "INDEPENDENT PRACTICE MEDICAL PRACTITIONER" row in the same register. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [hpcsa-dpillay] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Not applicable: this country has no Facility register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-20 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The legal entity is named; the register of this class is not accessible or does not cover this legal form (sole practitioner, private practice). CIPC Enterprise Search is login-gated (map closedAttempt) and its hosts do not answer this network; no secondary company route exists for South Africa, so the cell is scored on what the clinic itself publishes. The hospital group publishes its own PAIA manual naming the legal entity of this facility with a company registration number; served as a PDF, so no quote is stored. [site-paia] [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, facility or legal-entity registration numbers published on the site. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. |
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, 17 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No consent, risk-disclosure, aftercare, revision-policy or complaints content found on the checked page. [site] |
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 Desigan Pillay [hpcsa-dpillay] [site] | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon | MP 0607258 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: could not verify
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: could not verify
- Hair transplant: could not verify
- Injectables: could not verify
- Medical weight loss: could not verify
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://www.lenmed.co.za/doctor/dr-d-pillay/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +27 31 581 2478 |
| Address | Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre, Sessional Suite, Lower Ground Floor, 11 Riverhorse Drive, Riverhorse Valley Business Estate, Durban |
| City | Durban |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.lenmed.co.za/doctor/dr-d-pillay/ | clinic's own site | physician name, role, address, phone, special interests | 31 August 2026 |
| hpcsa-dpillay | https://hpcsaonline.custhelp.com/app/i_reg_form | official register | HPCSA iRegister: POST .../getDataFromRnow regNumber=MP0607258 w_id=27 — Dr Desigan Pillay, matched ACTIVE rows "INDEPENDENT PRACTICE SPECIALIST ... PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY" and "INDEPENDENT PRACTICE MEDICAL PRACTITIONER" | 31 August 2026 |
| hpcsa-sanc-dpillay | https://www.hpcsa.co.za/api/website/find-all-document | official register | HPCSA published Guilty Verdicts 2025/2026 (category Judgements) checked for registration number MP0607258 — no match; cross-read against iRegister Status = ACTIVE (no ERASED/SUSPENDED/TERMINATED row) | 31 August 2026 |
| cohsasa | https://cohsasa.co.za/accredited-facilities/ | secondary | COHSASA accredited-facilities list (46 South-Africa-and-region facilities) checked — this operating location not present (voluntary accreditation register; absence not penalised) | 31 August 2026 |
| aprassa | https://aprassa.co.za/search-result.php?provincesearch=4&town=7&typ… | secondary | APRASSA (Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons of Southern Africa) area search, Durban — practitioner listed as a member with practice address (association signal only, not used for M1 provenance) | 31 August 2026 |
| site-paia | https://www.lenmed.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/PAIA-Policy-202… | clinic's own site | Lenmed Group PAIA manual linked from https://www.lenmed.co.za/paia/: the manual applies to Lenmed Investments Limited (Reg. No. 1980/003108/06); its schedule of group hospitals lists Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre, KZN, registration number 2002/002222/07; publisher Lenmed Health (Pty) Ltd, Reg 2005/022423/07 | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 3 (Re-run of the v1.0 retry cell (v1.2 pass 1): entity named by the site, company register closed.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: 3 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): facility_registry class removed (voluntary accreditation is not a register): axis not applicable) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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