Transplant Surgeons work with Oragnized Crime to traffick organs
A top expert on Organ Trafficking stated that the world’s top transplant surgeons are involved in organ trafficking.
Top transplant surgeons are collaborating with criminal organ trafficking networks to target the desperate, an expert said Thursday.
“It involves people from the highest level of their profession,” said Nancy Scheper-Hughes, founding director of Organs Watch, an academic research project at the University of California, Berkeley.
Some surgeons are “willing to collaborate with the lowest levels of society — with criminal networks, brokers and with kidney hunters, who are the absolutely necessary factor,” she said.
Dr. Scheper-Hughes conservatively estimates the number of kidney trafficked at 15,000 a year.
Learn more about this black market activity at our Organ Trafficking page.
