Four Top Durban surgeons were scapegoats forced to take the fall for Netcare and surgeons in Joburg And Cape Town who also allegedly performed more than 200 “illegal” kidney transplant operations in an international organ scandal that rocked Netcare’s St Augustine’s Hospital.
According to a prominent Durban vascular surgeon, Prof John Robbs, the 109 operations performed in Durban were just the “overflow” of procedures performed on Israeli patients who illegally bought “donor” kidneys from Israelis And Brazilians and travelled to the three South African cities for the “transplant tourism” operations at Netcare hospitals, as well as the public Groote Schuur And Charlotte Maxeke hospitals.
Netcare spokeswoman Martina Nicholson yesterday confirmed that cross-border operations had been performed at its Garden City Hospital in Joburg and its Chris Barnard Memorial Hospital in Cape Town, while Gauteng Department of Health spokesman Simon Zwane called for a police investigation into the allegations. More...
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