[Editor’s note: Sounds a bit like You’ve Got to be Kidneying from Snopes.com. If you read down to the bottom of that link, you’ll find a hauntingly similar story that was reported in May of 1998. Perhaps it’s been a slow news week in New Delhi.]
Indian Police Probe Transplant Ring
by Sam Dolnick
1010 WINS
January 28, 2008
New Delhi (AP) — Police said they were raiding hospitals and guest houses Monday as part of their investigation into an illegal transplant racket that allegedly removed kidneys from up to 500 poor laborers and sold their organs to wealthy clients.
Police suspect that dozens of doctors were involved in the kidney racket, which had a waiting list of some 40 people hailing from at least five countries.
The scam, centered in Gurgaon – a posh suburb of New Delhi – used luxury cars outfitted with blood-testing machines to test donors on the fly as well as sophisticated surgical equipment hidden inside a residential neighborhood.
The sprawling investigation is ongoing and police are raiding hospitals’ offices and guest houses, Gurgaon Police Commissioner Mohinder Lal told reporters in Gurgaon on Monday.
The primary suspects, who police said have been tied to organ transplant rackets in the past, have apparently fled the country, Lal said.
“We suspect around 400 or 500 kidney transplants were done by these doctors over the last nine years,” Lal told reporters last week. Continue reading “Kidney Transplant Horrors Revisited”
