Sixteen people, including two surgeons, were sentenced to two to five years’ trafficking in human organs in China, a practice that is still widespread in the country.
The organization also includes an anesthesiologist, a nurse and an assistant physician, according to the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday (Dec. 31). They are involved in large-scale illegal trade in kidneys.
Jinan City, Shandong Province, said the court, several defendants in the online search of people selling kidney, arranged between the seller and the buyer of the test and competition.
Immigration was secretly executed in the city of Seco, according to a court ruling on Friday.
Each patient was told to pay 400,000 yuan (83,000 Canadian dollars) to 600,000 yuan, while the people selling kidney only 4 million yuan.
China in 2007 promulgated the first human organ transplant regulations prohibiting organizations and individuals engaged in organ trade.
But trafficking is still widespread in China and there is a serious shortage of donated organs.
China’s traditional regulations, the body was buried without mutilation.
For decades, according to allegations denied by rights groups – the authorities, most transplant recipients often use their organs without the consent of their families.