ABM - Costa Rican authorities announced on Wednesday that they had broken up an international organ trafficking ring that worked with Israeli doctors and specialized in selling kidneys to patients in Israel and East Europe. Sources involved in the investigation said they know of cases in which Israeli patients had been flown to Costa Rica to undergo surgery, without reporting to the health authorities. Israel’s Health Ministry said in response to the report from Costa Rica that “the cases mentioned are not familiar and the Health Ministry does not know of them.” If organ transplants arranged by the Costa Rican network were performed in Israel, as alleged, then the “donors” from Costa Rica appear to have obtained a permit for the harvest in Israeli hospitals, along with the approval of the Health Ministry committee that authorizes organ donations from the living. “We see these people as victims of an international crime ring,” the prosecutor said haaretz/news/national/israeli-mds-harvesting-organs-for-international-trafficking-ring.premium-1.530848#.UcOwiqCcF2E.facebook
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 02:23:40 +0000
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