BMJ 2007;335:1013 (17 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.39398.419769.DB
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WHO reports growing commercial trade in transplant organs
Roger Dobson
Abergavenny
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Travelling abroad for organ transplants provided on a commercial basis—so called transplant tourism—may now account for at least one in 20 of all transplants, according to a report from the World Health Organization (Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2007 Nov 1 doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.039370).
Advertising of package deals that include a transplant—for example, a package costing £16 000 (
23 000; $34 000) for a kidney transplant in Pakistan—is flourishing, and the trade in organs is growing, the report found. "The results suggest that the international organ trade no longer represents sporadic instances in transplant medicine," it says. "The total number of recipients who underwent commercial organ transplants overseas may be conservatively estimated at around 5% of all recipients in 2005."
Reliable information on numbers and clinical outcomes is scarce, the report noted, but it reviewed information from media reports, journal articles, conference papers, reports from health ministries,
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