Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Top Indian hospitals are buying kidneys from poor villagers to sell to rich patients...

In India, kidney trafficking is big business.

This week, the police arrested five top doctors from Mumbai’s elite Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital, including its CEO and medical director, for their alleged involvement in a sophisticated organ-harvesting racket that extracted kidneys from poor villagers.

Acting on a tip-off from a worker at the hospital, the police first uncovered the racket in July after busting a suspicious transplant surgery wherein a woman was to donate her kidney to her husband. It was found that the woman was a poor villager from the state of Gujarat, with no relation to the man.

Under Indian law, only close relatives can donate their kidneys to patients in need. Buying and selling organs is strictly prohibited and punishable by prison sentences and fines of up to Rs25 lakh. Full story...

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