On June 4, 2016, the police in New Delhi (India) arrested 2 personal secretaries of the nephrologist at the Apollo Hospital and 3 agents who supplied kidney donors to patients at inflated prices.
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The policemen detained Aditya Singh, 24 years old and Shailesh Saxena, 31 years old. Both of them assisted the doctor during the organ removal. Meanwhile, their accomplices 37-year-old Asim Sikdar, 30-year-old Satya Prakash, and Devashish Mulik looked for the poor people to get them to sell their kidneys.
The police have already determined the donors and tracked the final recipients. At the moment, an official notification is being prepared for the Apollo administration with a request for assistance in the investigation.
During the interrogation, the prisoners talked to the police that the donors paid 300,000 - 400,000 rupees ($4,500 - $6,000), although the beneficiaries paid about 5,000,000 rupees ($75,000) for one kidney.
The donors were from Bengal, Kanpur, Delhi, and Chennai, where the criminal network had local dealers for these purposes.
Potential donors were delivered to Delhi and lodged in five-star hotels for the period of preoperative testing.
Within a day, the police found 5 donor organs seized at Apollo Hospital.
Representatives of the Hospital say that there is no hospital staff among the prisoners and they do not know anything about the detained gang.
The comment of Bookimed Senior Doctor-Coordinator Maxim Privalov
"Patients who need kidney transplantation often request our website. India is one of the leaders of countries to provide such operations. Indian doctors have a lot of experience, and the prices for the procedure are much lower than anywhere else.
The first question that we ask patients is whether they have a related donor (up to the fourth tribe). The low of many countries, including India, forbids organ transplants for foreign patients from unrelated donors or dead people.
Therefore Bookimed patients do not deal with similar black schemes of organs sale. We will watch this situation and keep in touch with the Apollo Clinic because treatment only in the best clinics with the clean reputation is important for our patients."
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Last updated: October 18, 2023.
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