‘There is a level of complacency’: trial exposes UK’s vulnerability to organ harvesting

‘There is a level of complacency’: trial exposes UK’s vulnerability to organ harvesting The UK is supposed to have one of the best systems in the world for preventing vulnerable people being exploited for their organs. How then did one of its biggest hospitals become embroiled in the macabre trade of kidney harvesting?

The UK’s first trial organ trafficking trial has exposed alarming vulnerabilities to a illegal trade that makes up 10% of transplants worldwide. The case has highlighted how poverty can tempt some people to sell their body parts to those willing to exploit an acute global shortage of organs for donation. The Guardian

See also:

• Organ-trafficking plot politician Ike Ekweremadu and wife guilty BBC News
• Nigerian politician, wife, and a doctor guilty of organ trafficking Channel 4 News