Police arrested five people, including a doctor, in the suburbs of Delhi yesterday for allegedly removing kidneys from young men without their permission and selling them to wealthy patients.
The illegal organ transplant trade was being run from a private hospital in Gurgaon, just outside Delhi. News reports claimed that at least 500 kidneys had been illegally transplanted.
The victims all appeared to be poor labourers from the villages near Delhi. They were lured to the private clinic with the job offers but told that instead they were wanted for their kidneys, for which they would be paid a fee. Those that refused apparently were held against their will before being drugged and operated upon.
No comments:
Post a Comment