Ian and buying organs in the UK

[Guest guest]

Ian - the story is a bit more complicated than that. Firstly it's illegal to buy and sell organs in the UK - even inferior ones. The newspaper source you mention is not very reliable. A developing scandal is that several liver units are giving organs to foreign patients. The hospitals, especially our largest liver unit, at King's College Hospital, London, deny that these organs are in any way inferior but they say they are not suitable for reasons of size, blood type etc. for any of the 300 or so British patients waiting for liver Tx, some of whom may die. This is difficult to believe and is causing a lot of disquiet.These private patients coming from the Middle East in particular, are charged an average of £80,000 and it's reported that the surgeons make £20,000 per operation. The priority here is for UK citizens first and then citizens of the 27 countries in the European Union. The hospital claims it is not breaking any rules and it's going to be "business as usual."

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Ivor

(PSC-Support - UK)