Kidney trade arrest exposes loopholes in India's transplant laws

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7434.246-c

BMJ 2004;328:246 (31 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7434.246-c

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Kidney trade arrest exposes loopholes in India's transplant laws

New Delhi Ganapati Mudur

Police have arrested a senior surgeon in Mumbai (Bombay) for his alleged role in facilitating trade in human kidneys.
The arrest has exposed a loophole in India�s decade old organ transplantation act. Doctors say that the act is not strict enough to stop unrelated living donors pretending that they are a friend or relative of the recipient and are giving a kidney for emotional rather than financial reasons.
Detectives arrested Dr Suresh Trivedi, a nephrologist at the Bombay Hospital and Medical Research Centre, last week after claiming to have established links between him and agents who recruited kidney donors for his patients.
Police said that Trivedi would pass requests for kidneys to agents who would find poor donors and fabricate documents to show that the donors were distant relatives or close friends of the patients. Each donor would receive 30 000-50 000 rupees (£360-£610, $660-$1100), but . . . [Full text of this article]

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