Serious Another top Indian hospital found operating kidney trafficking racket

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Doctors at top Indian hospital charged in kidney harvesting racket

 August 11, 2016
By Nita Bhalla
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The chief executive, medical director and three other doctors at a prestigious Indian hospital have been charged with offences related to illegal organ transplants after a kidney trafficking racket was uncovered, a police spokesman said.

Operating out of the private L.H. Hiranandani Hospital in Mumbai, the organ harvesting ring was busted by police in July following a tip-off that poor villagers were being paid to sell their kidneys to recipients via a network of agents.
Mumbai Deputy Police Commissioner Ashok Dudhe said the five doctors were arrested late on Tuesday after police had examined the findings of a government inquiry into the case.
"Two days ago, we got the report from the director for health services for Mumbai. In this report, there were charges made against these doctors such as negligence under the 1994 Transplantation of Human Organs Act," Dudhe told a news conference on Wednesday.
"They did not follow the procedures laid out, so after receiving the report, we arrested them and brought them before the court."
Fourteen people have been arrested so far, he said, including a donor, a recipient and middlemen.
Officials at L.H. Hiranandani Hospital did not respond to email requests for comment.
This is the second kidney trafficking racket found operating out of a top Indian hospital in recent months. In June, police discovered a similar racket operating out of the reputable Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in the capital New Delhi.

A shortage of organs for transplants fuels a black-market trade in body parts in India.
Commercial trade in organs is illegal in India and only relatives can act as donors. Transplant donations must be approved by a special transplant committee at each hospital.
Police uncovered the racket at L.H. Hiranandani Hospital after a worker informed them of suspicious documentation for a scheduled operation for which a woman was donating a kidney to her husband.
They raided the hospital during the operation on July 14, and found the couple were not married and the donor was in fact an impoverished rural woman from the neighboring Gujarat state.
Traffickers allegedly lured poor people from Gujarat into selling their kidneys for about 200,000 rupees ($3,000) and then re-sold their organs on the black market at a huge profit.
Dudhe said the five doctors are charged under a section of the law that holds hospital management responsible for offences committed under their watch. They are also charged for failure to meet the recipient and donor to explain the risks of surgery.
"The CEO's job was to meet both the donor and recipient and make the necessary inquiries about them, but he did not do that," said Dudhe.

 

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Fake kidney donors in India.

"A shortage of organs for transplants fuels a black-market trade in body parts in India.
Commercial trade in organs is illegal in India and only relatives can act as donors. Transplant donations must be approved by a special transplant committee at each hospital.
Police uncovered the racket at L.H. Hiranandani Hospital after a worker informed them of suspicious documentation for a scheduled operation for which a woman was donating a kidney to her husband.
They raided the hospital during the operation on July 14, and found the couple were not married and the donor was in fact an impoverished rural woman from the neighboring Gujarat state."

 

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That's all right. Black change black.
If they kidnap yellow change black then more scary.

 

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That's all right. Black change black.
If they kidnap yellow change black then more scary.

Not OK if the victims have been duped by kidney traffickers and received only 1% of the agreed amount like what this news is saying many Nepalese villagers duped into donating kidney at India hospitals.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/26/world/asia/freedom-project-nepals-organ-trail/

'The meat will grow back'

Nawaraj Pariyar is one of the many victims of kidney traffickers.
Like many in Kavre, Pariyar makes a living from selling cattle milk and doing seasonal labor jobs on nearby farms. Poor and uneducated, all he has is two cows, a house and a tiny plot of land.

Victims tell their story. 01:01
Pariyar used to visit Kathmandu to find construction work. He was on a site in 2000 when the foreman approached him with a dubious offer: if he let doctors cut out a "hunk of meat" from his body, he would be given 30 lakhs -- about $30,000.
What he wasn't told: the piece of "meat" was actually his kidney.
"The foreman told me that the meat will grow back," Pariyar said.
"Then I thought, 'If the meat will regrow again, and I get about $30,000, why not?'"
"What if I die?" Pariyar remembers asking the foreman.
The foreman assured Pariyar that nothing would happen. He was given good food and clothes, and was even taken to see a movie.
Then he was escorted to a hospital in Chennai, a southern state of India.
Traffickers assigned a fake name to Pariyar and told the hospital he was a relative of the recipient. The traffickers, Pariyar says, had all the fake documents ready to prove his false identity.
"At the hospital, the doctor asked me if the recipient was my sister. I was told by the traffickers to say yes. So I did," Pariyar said.
"I heard them repeatedly saying 'kidney'. But I had no idea what 'kidney' meant. I only knew Mirgaula (the Nepali term for kidney.)
"Since I didn't know the local language, I couldn't understand any conversation between the trafficker and the hospital staff."
Pariyar was discharged and sent home with about 20,000 Nepali rupees -- less than one percent of the agreed amount -- and a promise he would have the rest shortly.
He never received any more money and never found the trafficker.
"After I came back to Nepal, I had a doubt. So, I went to the doctor. That's when I found out I am missing a kidney," Pariyar said.
Pariyar is now sick and getting worse by the day. He has a urinary problem and constant severe back pain.

"If I die I can only hope for the government to take care of my two children. I don't know if I will die today or tomorrow. I'm just counting my days," Pariyar said.
Pariyar's experience is one of many similar stories we heard in Kavre.

 

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Btw now we know people with kidney problems have constant severe back pain. It's amazing someone here can still live normally. Still badgering others to buy cheesecake to eat in hospital?

"Pariyar is now sick and getting worse by the day. He has a urinary problem and constant severe back pain."