Five people have been taken into custody in Assam, after police got wind of a growing kidney racket between Assam and Tamilnadu.
What has come to light following the arrest is the manner in which the gang lured poor people with huge sums of money, in return for their kidney. The target was always poor people of the category of rickshaw pullers or daily wage workers.
Major Kidney Racket Unearthed Near Bangalore
A thriving racket in the sale of kidneys has been busted by the Bangalore rural police and three key culprits arrested.
A thriving racket in the sale of kidneys has been busted by the Bangalore rural police and three key culprits arrested.
Two city hospitals conduct preliminary tests after which the patients are sent to Tamilnadu for transplantation. Malakar also told the police that this racket has been going on for 4 years between Assam and Tamilnadu. Malakar has been apprehended by the police.
The three men in police custody have confessed to selling their kidneys to people they did not know after an operation at Coimbatore hospital. Police suspect the hand of doctors and hospitals in both Assam and Tamilnadu. However, with the information provided by Malakar, police are tracing the whereabouts of Raju Ali, the chief of the gang and the brain behind this racket.
Pakistani Doctors Behind Bars for Illegal Kidney Removals
Police in the Pakistani city of Lahore have arrested four doctors engaged in the illegally removing human kidneys
Police in the Pakistani city of Lahore have arrested four doctors engaged in the illegally removing human kidneys
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In a trial of an experimental protocol designed to induce tolerance to HLA mismatched kidney transplant, four of five patients have been able to discontinue immunosuppressive drugs.
In a trial of an experimental protocol designed to induce tolerance to HLA mismatched kidney transplant, four of five patients have been able to discontinue immunosuppressive drugs.
