The missing kidney

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The missing kidney
Manjari Mishra
[ 21 Feb, 2007 0544hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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LUCKNOW: For four months, Satya Bhan Singh Chauhan, a former employee at Qureshi petrol pump, Aligarh, is trying to find his missing kidney. His adversaries are raking their brains over how best to confound the confused man.

Chauhan had approached chief judicial magistrate RK Shrivastava last October to demand punitive action against a team of six surgeons of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh.

The team, headed by professor and former chairperson of the department of surgery Dr AK Varma, had "surreptitiously" knocked off his left kidney during an emergency operation carried out on February 15 2000 he alleged. Chauhan was crushed under a UPSRTC bus and was referred to the medical college with a raptured spleen.

Although CJM Aligarh Shrivastava has ordered registration of a case under sections 420 326 and 468 of the IPC on February 15 2007, Chauhan fears a long wait."

Men in khaki are no experts on surgical technicalities and AMU administration is trying its best to cover up the folly committed by their colleagues," he told TOI on Tuesday.

The 28-year-old has not given up his pursuit. The biggest ace up his sleeve he claims is "an ultra sound report" conducted just a day before the surgery.

The report by city radiologist Dr Sunil Mittal clearly mentions presence of both kidneys. "What happened to one of them in the next 18 hours?" asks a curious Chauhan.

He could detect something was amiss only in October last year. Investigations followed and suddenly he was told that his "surviving right kidney" had developed complications.

An appalled Chauhan claims to have undergone a CT scan and MRI also to rebut the claims, but the evidence was irrefutable. The left kidney was not to be found.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Lucknow/The_missing_kidney/articleshow/1647547.cms

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Seems we have another case of a missing kidney.....

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"When we got the ultrasound test done, we were shocked to find that Maya’s left kidney was missing. The following day we went to Dr Richharia’s clinic and informed the receptionist of our problem. To our dismay, the doctor refused to meet us and the hospital staff physically assaulted us for ‘attempting to malign the reputation of the doctor’," says Phool Singh. The couple went to the local police station, but the police refused to register their complaint. "The police was obviously under the influence of the doctor, and though we showed them all the relevant papers related to the operation, they just refused to entertain our complaint," says Phool Singh.

>>>>>>The Complete Article
http://tinyurl.com/ynw58j

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The seemingly high rate of kidney's that go missing in this part of the world would certainly make me think twice about whether that first kidney really needed to be removed or not? Where truth is stranger than fiction....
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Geelani’s only kidney malignant; he wants treatment abroad
PEERZADA ASHIQ / Riyaz Wani
Posted online: Tuesday, March 06, 2007
NEW DELHI, SRINAGAR, March 5: After doctors treating hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani at the Apollo hospital here today said that tests have confirmed malignancy in his right kidney, the separatist leader urged the Centre to allow him to travel overseas for treatment.
 
 “We have conducted three tests, CT Scan, Bone Scan and Scan Guided Biopsy, and they are positive,” said Sameer Kaul, an oncologist at Apollo. In 2003, Geelani’s left kidney was removed at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, when he had developed malignancy during his detention in Ranchi jail.

“His only kidney has developed malignancy,” Kaul said. “It’s at a very early stage and treatment will help. A transplant is not recommended at this stage. He will require surgery in the coming weeks and as of now, his condition is stable.” It was during a regular check-up last week at Escorts Hopital that doctors observed a “mass on the right kidney.”
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http://tinyurl.com/24o8pp

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In the cases of these poor women their kidney's were not stolen....but sold. These people as a whole, but the women and children imparticular  continue to suffer from the devastating effects of the tsunami.

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Post-tsunami violence against women on rise-report
By Onkar Pandey
Source: Reuters Foundation

Date: 31 Mar 2007
NEW DELHI, March 31 (Reuters) - Women who survived the 2004 Asian tsunami face heightened risks of violence, impoverishment and lack of privacy at relief camps in several nations, a report released on Saturday said.

In many places, women were more vulnerable to abuse by men after the tsunami uprooted their traditional way of life, the report by 174 organisations, including ActionAid International, said..

"They would often beat their wives after getting drunk and would force them to have sex in the camps, sometimes in front of children," said Sriyani Perera, ActionAid International's women rights coordinator for Asia.

The report covered five countries -- Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Thailand, India and Somalia -- and more than 7,000 women were interviewed.

In the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu where more than 7,000 people died when the monstrous waves struck on Dec. 26 over two years ago, some women who lost their houses or livelihood had to sell their kidneys to make ends meet.

"We were shifted to a place where there was no work and no food to feed our children," a woman from Tamil Nadu was quoted as saying in the report. Her name was not given.

"I sold my kidney and got a small amount. They did not give me the promised amount. Now I am suffering with heavy abdominal pain and I can't work."

The report said women were often not consulted in the distribution of relief -- material or financial -- and men often misused funds for drinking, leading to further abuse of women.

Single and older women as well as those with disabilities were particularly vulnerable in the post-tsunami rehabilitation period.

On Dec. 26, 2004, giant waves triggered by one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded pulverised villages along Indian Ocean shores. Around 230,000 people were killed or went missing. Another 1.5 million were left homeless.

South Asian nations were severely hit by the tsunami with tens of thousands killed across Sri Lanka, India and the Maldives.

The report said sex tourism was on the rise in coastal areas of tsunami-affected regions in India as hotels were being built near the shoreline.

Poor women, especially from devastated fishing communities, were particularly vulnerable to exploitation.

"The government doesn't allow fishermen to live within 500 metres (1,650 feet) of the seashore," Magline, 38, who is from a fishing community in the southern Indian state of Kerala, told Reuters.

"The coast has been leased to sand miners and hotels leading to influx of outsiders," she said. "This has affected our local culture and given rise to sex tourism."

The report has been released ahead of a summit of South Asian leaders in New Delhi from April 3-4 and its authors want the governments to pay heed to the plight of women survivors of the tsunami and provide them better protection.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6ZV97L?OpenDocument

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Killers dump schoolboy's body taking away kidney
By Narsingdi Correspondent
Mon, 25 Jun 2007, 13:29:00

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Shibpur police in the district yesterday recovered the mutilated body of a kidnapped schoolboy.

The schoolboy Fahad was mauled by the kidnappers for robbing him of his vital body organs, including kidneys at village Bharaterkandi in Shibpur upazila.

The cruel culprits took away liver, kidneys and intestines of the little boy and threw his mutilated body in a jute field near their house.

Sources said the 11-year-old Fahad, son of Mokhlesur Rahman and a Class IV student of Bharaterkandi Govt Primary School went missing from his school Sunday morning. Later, his parents and relatives carried out an extensive searches for him.

Neighbours found the body of Fahad, in the paddy field at about 11am yesterday and informed his parents.

A heartrending scene was created following the awful finding.

Hundreds of people from far and near thronged the spot.

Receiving information, police went to the spot and recovered the body of the schoolboy. The body was later sent to the Narsingdhi Sadar Hospital morgue for postmortem.

A murder case was filed with the Shibpur Police Station. The sensational killing of schoolboy Fahad has created great shock among the inhabitants of Shibpur.

http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_37085.shtml

[LouiseVargas]

Dear bleachedblack,

Thank you for posting. It is absolutely horrifying. This is one of the most horrible stories I've ever read.

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Missing kidney lands man in trouble

A Romanian thief has been charged with organ smuggling after a routine prison check revealed he was missing a kidney.

Robert Mihaly, 30, from Cluj, is the first Romanian to be charged in the country with illegal trading in organs.

Police started investigating when they were told of the discovery following the check at Gherla prison.

Mihaly had been sent to jail for theft but during a routine medical examination he told the prison doctor that his kidney had been removed because of medical problems he had.

Authorities were unable to find any hospital records to back up his story and the police investigation found he had sold his kidney in 2001 for more than £10,000 pounds to a woman who has since left the country.

An investigator told the Ziarul daily newspaper: "We connected the man's name to a Romanian woman who was looking for a kidney for a Serb."

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1346243.html?menu

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British Family Protests Bizarre Death on Rhodes
A Fatal Fall in Faliraki has Unexpected Repercussions

In a tale that sounds like a lurid tabloid headline, the British family of Christopher Rochester, killed in an accidental fall from an apartment balcony in Rhodes last year, is threatening legal action against Greece because their son's body was returned minus a kidney.

The Chester-Le-Street Advertiser, the newspaper in Rochester's home town in England, reports that Rochester was in Rhodes with his brother Keith, a disc jockey at the popular resort town of Faliraki. He was working as a bar manager when he was killed on June 11th, 2000, just four days after arriving in Rhodes.

Though he was injured in the 40-foot fall, British medical tests indicate that the wounds should not have been fatal. Attending paramedics told the still-conscious Rochester that he had just received a "bad bang" on the head for which he later received several stitches. But less than three hours later, he was dead.

When the missing kidney was reported to Greek medical authorities, a kidney was sent to Britain several months later. However, DNA testing showed that the kidney received was not Rochester's.

Generally, Rhodes enjoys the same excellent visitor-safety record as the rest of Greece.

At the hospital in Rhodes, Rochester's brother Keith was initially asked to identify someone else's body. All of his brother's clothes were missing, and he was told a kidney had been removed for a toxicology test.

Chester-le-Street Minister of Parliament Giles Radice is calling for a full inquiry by the pertinent Greek authorities. In the meantime, British hospitals are scrambling to deal with their own missing-organ scandal affecting thousands of families -see link below.

While some are asking if the "missing" kidney somehow fell into the hands of black market organ dealers, there is no evidence that it was removed for anything but the toxicology testing.

Rhodes tourism has suffered several blows lately, with a death of a bungee jumper due to inadequate straps, and incidents involving tourists preying on each other. The party atmosphere in Faliraki, always active, is attracting more and more students on summer break, many of whom work and play all summer long.

A webpage on Faliraki listed "a drunken stupid state" and "crawling home drunk" as two "in" things to do, while "staying sober" and "taxi home early" were on the "out" list for summer 2000. Ironically, Rochester was partying with friends and his brother when he did leave early to return to his nearby apartment.

While exactly what happened, both before and after Rochester's accident, is still unclear, it's always good advice for travelers to remain alert and aware of their surroundings, which may mean turning down that final drink or two. Just the uneven pavements in Greece can bring down a tipsy tourist. Medical care for trauma injuries, while good in Greece, is not always nearby and there may be delays in reaching care when traveling outside major cities and towns. As anyone who drives in Greece knows, even an ambulance can only go so fast on the dark curving roads. Better to avoid needing one if you can.

http://gogreece.about.com/library/weekly/aa012401a.htm

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Family search for answers on missing kidney
Rhodes in Greece
Christopher Rochester died on his fourth day in Rhodes
The stepfather of a British holidaymaker who died after falling from a balcony in Greece said he is "determined" to find out what happened to his son's missing kidney.

Christopher Rochester, 24, from Chester-le-Street in County Durham, died in Rhodes Town Hospital after the accident on 11 June 2000.

When his remains were returned from Greece for burial in the UK it was discovered that one of the kidneys was not his.

It appeared that a Greek pathologist who carried out an autopsy on Mr Rochester's body swapped one of his kidneys with someone else's organ before returning the body to the dead man's family.

The Greek hospital denies any wrongdoing, but Mr Rochester's parents have now asked their local MP and MEP to lobby the Greek government on their behalf.

Mr Rochester's stepfather George Cummings said he is determined to find out what happened to the kidney and, if possible, have it buried with his stepson's body.

MEP Stephen Hughes, who represents the North East, is seeking urgent talks with the Greek ministers of health and justice to demand the whereabouts of the kidney.

Kevan Jones, MP for North Durham, is also pressing the Foreign Office to make the Greeks investigate the case further.

Mr Cummings said: "Hopefully with the support of our government, we will get the answers that we've never had."

Trainee doctor

The family is afraid that the kidney may have been removed and then sold for transplant into another patient, perhaps in another country.

In July this year North Durham Coroner Andrew Tweddle recorded a verdict of accidental death contributed to by neglect in the case.

The coroner heard from an expert that the doctor who attended Mr Rochester may have been a trainee.

"This is a case that has given me great concern about the standards of medical care that Christopher received while he was in Rhodes,'" the coroner said.

His stepfather George Cummings said after the inquest: "Come hell or high water we are determined that the medical staff on duty that night will be held responsible."

Night of drinking

Family solicitor Terence Carney has said: "The family will now give consideration as to whether to pursue a civil action against the hospital authorities.

"They expect the same standard of care that they would get in a British hospital."

The inquest heard how Mr Rochester had to wait 40 minutes for an ambulance.

Mr Rochester had travelled to Rhodes with a friend to stay with his brother Keith who was a nightclub DJ in the party district of Faliraki.

He had only been on the island four days when the fatal fall occurred after a night out drinking with friends on 10 June 2000.

His friend, David Vest, told the court how Christopher had screamed with pain as hospital porters knocked into doors as they took him on a stretcher to an orthopaedic ward.

Within hours, he was dead.

The Greek authorities registered Mr Rochester's cause of death as oligaemic shock, bleeding to death, claiming the impact of his fall had severed two major blood vessels to the young man's kidney.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1535061.stm

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International traffic in human organs

http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1907/19070730.htm

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For two years 'they refused to admit about missing kidney'

Published: July 31, 2007, 23:12

Abu Dhabi: An Emirati mother says she will demand compensation and an apology from Shaikh Khalifa Hospital and the Health Authority in Abu Dhabi for allegedly removing her daughter's kidney without her consent.

A. Abdullah Al Ameri told Gulf News yesterday she will sue Shaikh Khalifa Medical City. She said she has suffered for the last two years.

She said her daughter, underwent a surgery to remove a tumour above her kidney, when she was 24 days old.

"Even though I was not completely convinced with the idea of a surgery, Dr Colin Lazarus, paediatric surgeon at the Shaikh Khalifa Hospital then insisted that the tumour or Neuroblastoma was very dangerous and that it had to be removed."

Al Ameri added the surgeon assured her that the surgery will not affect her kidney or any part of her daughter, who was born on January 16, 2003.

Finally after carrying out the necessary tests the surgery was done on February 9, 2003. Almost-two-and-a-half months after surgery, follow up scan was done on April 23, 2003 and during the scan the radiologist asked me if the left kidney was removed during the surgery.

Al Ameri said these words shocked me and she replied that it was not and later the radiologist told her to confirm with the doctor on our visit to the clinic. The next day, on April 24, 2003, a CT scan was done and during the visit to the doctor it was said that everything was fine and nothing to worry.

"This was repeated every three months and as usual we were assured by the follow up doctor in the clinic that the child was fine and progressing with good health.

"When I asked a doctor about the left kidney not shown in the scan he said that the kidney is ok and it was not removed. Then we continued the follow up visits and kept on asking the doctors about the left kidney and all the doctors assured that it was present and fine.

"Until May 2005 when we visited the clinic and insisted to know for sure whether the left kidney was there or not. A CT scan was done and it was confirmed that the left kidney was removed during the surgery."

Al Ameri said she then complained at the hospital. Even after several months nothing was done and the hospital authorities said that due to some surgical mistake the blood supply to the left kidney stopped and as a result the kidney started shrinking and finally got absorbed by the body. In other words, they said it disappeared.

Hospitals disagreed

Al Ameri said she finally approached Health Authority's Complaints Department, but "after one year they also said that they agree with Shaikh Khalifa Hospital that the kidney can disappear and they closed the file."

However, Al Ameri, a mother of four children with Noora being the youngest, was not satisfied with their investigation. "I have taken my daughter's reports to other doctors in the UAE, Bahrain and India and all these doctors disagreed with what had been said at Shaikh Khalifa Hospital and by the Health Authority in Abu Dhabi."

Then she filed a complaint to Ahmad Al Mazroui, Director of the Health Authority, only to say after one year that they agree with the Complaints Department.

"Now my daughter is suffering. She can't play like a normal child. She gets tired very fast and every now and then she gets infection and we need to take special care of her. Thinking that one day she might have serious problem I can't sleep at nights. I want to know why my daughter and we have to suffer and go through all this. Now since more than two-and-a-half years, I have been struggling to get justice. A helpless mother is trying her best to get justice for her daughter," she said.

Hospital chief stands by report

Abu Dhabi: Dr Kenneth Ouriel, CEO of the Shaikh Khalifa Medical City, told Gulf News he was not sure whether the kidney was removed or not.

"However, I think the vessels may have been damaged during the surgery and the blood supply to the kidney was interrupted and as a result the kidney started to shrink," he said.

Dr Kenneth, also a vascular surgeon, apologised for what he called miscommunication and for not informing the patient's guardians about the risks involved in the surgery.

He also apologised for Al Ameri's suffering for the past two years and for the fact that nobody answered her questions or respected her feelings as a mother. Dr Kenneth joined SKMC recently and the hospital was under a Canadian management when the alleged medical mistake took place.

http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/08/01/10143371.html

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Desperation spurs poor Pakistanis to sell kidneys
  August 26, 2007

SULTANPUR MORE, Pakistan - Mehtab Ashraf knows the risks. Her neighbor died, her cousin's husband died, her husband and cousin are sick. But she has five children to raise. So, like hundreds of others in this farming village, Ashraf plans to sell her only possession of value: a kidney.

Here, everyone knows someone who has sold a kidney, often for less than $1,700. The village appears as if an epidemic has struck -- many young men and women have long purple scars across their sides. And even though most people, including Ashraf's husband, say they regret their decisions, she said she has no choice.

"I have sent my blood for tests," said Ashraf, 35. "I will sell off my kidney, and then, maybe, one or two of my children can be free."

This is the kind of desperate math that makes sense here in eastern Punjab province, where tenant farmers scrabble to pay off insurmountable debts to powerful landlords and women carry logs on their heads like pack mules. Ashraf's cousin, a single mother who must pay to marry off seven daughters, calculates that one kidney might buy three weddings.

Pakistan, one of a handful of countries that does not ban organ sales, is now called the Kidney Bazaar by doctors and the nation's media. Here, poor people sell their kidneys through agents and doctors to rich Pakistanis and foreigners, a trade that has increased since neighboring India banned organ sales in 1994 and China banned them last year. Pakistan now is one of the top five organ-trafficking hot spots in the world, according to the World Health Organization.

>>>>>>The Complete Article

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-kidneys_barkeraug26,1,7444018.story

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Medical official denies kidney was removed

Published: August 05, 2007, 00:00
Abu Dhabi: The Shaikh Khalifa Medical City yesterday denied a mother's claim that her child's kidney was removed.

Dr Kenneth Ouriel, CEO of the Shaikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC), told Gulf News he is sure after studying the pathology report that the kidney was not removed. "I am 99 per cent sure that kidney was not removed. Only a tumour was removed in the surgery."

Gulf News reported on Wednesday that A. Abdullah Al Ameri, an Emirati mother, said she will sue SKMC for removing her daughter Noora's kidney without her consent.

Noora's mother said her daughter underwent a surgery to remove a tumour above her kidney, when she was 24 days old.

'Organ may have shrunk'

Dr Ouriel earlier told Gulf News he felt the vessels may have been damaged during the surgery and the blood supply to the kidney was interrupted.

As a result the kidney started to shrink. He told Gulf News yesterday the child's kidney may have shrunk. "A 24-day-old baby's kidney is too small and can shrink. You cannot find it by a C.T. scan.

"I consulted a paediatric surgeon and he also confirmed that the kidney can shrink. It has happened in other cases also. I am confident that the kidney was not removed during the surgery."

He ruled out any conspiracy or foul play involving the entire medical team who conducted the surgery.

But Noora's mother does not accept the explanation.

"I have consulted doctors in the UAE, Bahrain and India and all of them told me that although kidney may shrink it will not totally disappear.

"The doctors made it clear that a kidney will never shrink to a stage where it disappears in just two and half months. The doctors said that the kidney can be seen as a dry seed in a C.T. scan even if it shrinks.

"I came to know about the missing kidney when a C.T. scan was done after two-and-a-half months of the surgery. The radiologist asked me whether child's left kidney was removed during the surgery."

A senior official of the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi said the issue is being discussed at the highest level. "We will soon come out with a comment," said the official.

http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/08/05/10144254.html

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This mystery story of missing organs claims other than missing kidney..........

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Serbian authorities 'helped cover up murder'

27/12/2007
Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, has been asked to look into the case of a British student whose family believe he was murdered by a Serbian criminal gang.
    
Petar Sutovic, 24, was found dead in 2004 in a Belgrade holiday flat owned by his mother Susan, a human rights lawyer.

The Serbian authorities insisted he had died of a heroin overdose, despite him having no history of drug-taking. Mrs Sutovic also learned that his heart and pancreas were missing.

Almost four years on, and following an exhaustive private investigation which has cost her £180,000, Mrs Sutovic believes she has proof that her son was stabbed to death and that the authorities have been complicit in a cover-up.

Mrs Sutovic, who has represented several opponents of the late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, has suspicions that her son may have been singled out as a way of putting her "out of action" and that Milosevic supporters may be behind the death.

"My son was murdered, there is absolutely no question about that," said Mrs Sutovic. "I have no doubt in my own mind that his heart was sold for transplantation, and that the motive for his murder was either specifically to take his organs or as a way of getting at me."
    
An inquest in London recorded an open verdict in 2004, but last year Mrs Sutovic challenged its findings and was granted a second inquest, which she hopes will return a verdict of unlawful killing.

Mrs Sutovic hopes to meet Mr Straw in the New Year to ask him to investigate her claims that the original inquest and post-mortem examination were bungled.

Mrs Sutovic is convinced her son's still-beating heart was auctioned as part of the growing trade in human organs. She says she has evidence to support this claim, which she will present at the new inquest, the date of which is yet to be fixed.

Mrs Sutovic hopes Mr Straw will be able to help her access documents about the original post-mortem examination. No death certificate has been issued, no burial certificate exists and Mrs Sutovic has not been given a copy of the post-mortem examination report.

Mr Sutovic is buried in Gunnersbury Cemetery, west London, where a headstone, in the shape of a heart was finally erected on Dec 16. To date, his mother has no official records which prove he is dead, let alone proof of how he died, but, she says, she will not rest until the truth is uncovered.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/26/wserbia126.xml

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Egyptian woman says husband sold her kidney

Jan 12, 2008
CAIRO (AFP) — An Egyptian woman has brought a case against her husband for allegedly drugging her and arranging for one of her kidneys to be removed and sold on the black market, local media reported on Saturday.

A judicial enquiry has been launched in the Nile Delta town of Menufiya after Warda Mohammed el-Banna said her husband Saad Helmi had her operated on after a pretend motorcycle accident, the opposition Al-Wafd daily said.

Her husband allegedly gave her a glass of drugged orange juice and said they were going out to see relatives. The woman said she passed out en route and woke up in a private hospital in the up-market Cairo district of Heliopolis.

He explained her scars by saying she had been operated on after they had an accident, but a few days later Banna started feeling weak and tests revealed she was missing a kidney.

Her husband is accused of selling the kidney on Egypt's thriving black market for human organs for 15,000 Egyptian pounds (2,730 dollars, 1,850 euros).

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gymGFnjciJ1XWs6th83y3U3yd9yg

[LouiseVargas]

This is diabolical. I can't evey go there.

[LouiseVargas]

I can't even go there.

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Sorry to hear it Louise....about your" not going there". My purpose in bringing such articles here is to broaden the awareness regarding the subject, not to "gross" anyone out. Such  occurrences have  been dismissed as urban legend for some time now. However the truth of the matter is while some of these stories are not legitimate there are those that are. Various parts of the world are known to traffic in organs. As with many things, the people in the poorest regions of the world fall victim .

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Organ Theft Deemed 'Most Serious' Human Rights Issue

http://tinyurl.com/2nkmhv

Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting
Chinese Officials Still Killing Falun Gong for Organs, Report Says

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-2-1/51181.html

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Doctor held for kidney racket

Friday, January 25, 2008
A thriving kidney transplant racket, including a large number of foreign clients has been uncovered in Gurgaon, just outside New Delhi.

Five people, including a doctor, were arrested after police carried out raids in Faridabad and at a clinic in Gurgaon.

The raids followed complaints by residents in Moradabad about touts luring people to sell their kidneys.

But the alleged mastermind behind the racket, Dr Amit Kumar, is missing.

''He has been working here for the past 6 or 7 years. He has operated about 400-500 patients for kidney transplant. It is a huge scandal. He has transplanted kidneys on a very large scale,'' said Mohindra Lal, Police Commissioner, Gurgaon.

Kumar is now believed to be in Canada.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080039411&ch=1/25/2008%204:41:00%20PM

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Kidney trade trail gets murkier

Monday, January 28, 2008
The probe has widened into the Rs 100 crore kidney transplant racket in Gurgaon near Delhi, even as the alleged mastermind, Dr Amit Kumar, remains free.

An embarrassed Gurgaon police on Monday admitted that he may have fled to Nepal.

Latest inspection of Dr Amit Kumar's headquarters reveal that the mastermind of the kidney bazaar owned six Gurgaon properties, a Mercedes and five other cars, all used to move his patients around town.

The police have notified Interpol and asked for a red corner notice against Amit Kumar for carrying out more than 500 illegal kidney transplants in the past 14 years. A red corner notice means that most countries will be looking out for him.

And three more doctors are being investigated in the kidney racket. Three nursing homes and another 10 diagnostic labs in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida were raided.

In Moradabad, where most of Dr Kumar's donors came from, the police says it has evidence that another three doctors worked with Dr Kumar. All three of them are missing.

Among them is an AIIMS graduate; also the wife of Dr Upendra who was arrested on Thursday night.

''We have recovered around eight cars that were used to ferry patients from Shashant Lok Hospital and Palam Vihar hospital. We have also learnt about eight banks that were operated them,'' said Mohinder Lal, Gurgaon Police Commissioner.

''We have asked for all accounts to be frozen and have sought a Red Corner notice for Dr Amit Kumar and Dr Jeevan. We have also learnt of two more hospitals. One is in Noida and raids are currently underway in the other hospital,'' he added.

One of south Delhi's well-known hospitals has been also named in the case. The Moradabad police claim that all the pathology reports involved in this racket were made from Batra hospital under fake names and addresses. But the hospital says it cannot be held responsible.

Meanwhile, two NRIs and two Greek nationals are being questioned.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080039711&ch=1/28/2008%209:48:00%20PM