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Four days after a 28-year-old woman complained to the police that she was duped into donating one of her kidneys on the promise of a government job for her husband, seven persons were booked o Saturday on charges of cheating, threatening life and organ trafficking, said police. Rinki Sorout, a resident of Palwal, has alleged…
Beijing [China], December 29 (ANI): The inclusion of modern medicine tools like DNA profiling and iris scanning at mass levels in China has given rise to fears of China using these tools to further promote the country’s inhuman international business of forcibly harvested human organs, according to a report in Tibet Press. The report says…
Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over controversy surrounding David Ukpo’s real age. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), others mentioned in the suit are: the Comptroller General (CG), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS); Stanbic-IBTC Bank; United Bank of Africa…
COLOMBO (News 1st) – A Colombo Court on Tuesday (6) remanded a 41-year-old man for his involvement in a kidney transplant racket. The man is said to scammed unsuspecting donors and recipients throught this racket, where transplants are said to have taken place at a leading hospital in Colombo. Western Hospital located on Cotta Road,…
Western Hospital, the private hospital at No. 218 Cotta Road, Borella which was exposed in connection with the alleged kidney racket has denied any involvement with organ trafficking or the smuggling of organs. Western Hospital said that in no circumstances has it been involved, nor would they ever be involved in any manner whatsoever in…
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja An Abuja-based medical outfit, Alliance Hospital and Services Limited, has rejected an allegation that it carried out kidney transplant on a minor who is below 18 years. In the said video which had gone viral online, a young man alleged that Alliance Hospital harvested a kidney from a 17-year-old boy and…
Editor’s note: this article contains great information about transplants and a good general overview of the transplant process. Globally, about 20 people die every day while waiting for a transplant. There are several organs and tissues that one can donate including kidneys, heart, blood, lungs, liver, pancreas, intestines, thymus, bone marrow, bones, tendon, ligaments, corneas,…
FIA registers 21 cases against human organ traffickers Minister of State for Law and Justice Senator Shahadat Awan on Friday said Federal Investigation Agency FIA registers 21 cases against human organ traffickers since 2017. Responding to the question, raised by Senator Seemee Ezdi, he told Senate that the FIA had arrested the gangs of 16…
Abstract Armed conflicts leave populations vulnerable to organ trafficking, a criminal enterprise with little international regulation when viewed separately from human trafficking. The Council of Europe’s Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs is the only instrument to contemplate the responsibility of actors involved in organ trafficking, but traffickers may go unpunished due to its limited…
TOKYO (THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Cases of suspected organ trafficking have recently emerged with regard to overseas organ transplants mediated by a private organisation. The government must ascertain the precise picture and background of the mediation scheme to clarify the problem. A Tokyo-based nonprofit organisation (NPO) received nearly ¥20 million (S$201,920) for arranging…
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