Trafficking of persons for the removal of organs and the admission of guilt of a South African hospital

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dc.contributor.author Allain, Jean
dc.date.accessioned 2011-08-08T08:52:16Z
dc.date.available 2011-08-08T08:52:16Z
dc.date.issued 2011-01
dc.description.abstract In November 2010, under the authority of the South African National Director of Public Prosecution, Netcare Kwa-Zulu (Pty) Limited entered into an agreement whereby it pleaded guilty to 102 counts related to charges stemming from having allowed its ‘employees and facilities to be used to conduct . . . illegal kidney transplant operations’. Charged along with this private company which was, in fact, the St Augustine’s Hospital, located in Durban, South Africa, were the parent company, Netcare, its CEO, Richard Friedland, and eight others: four transplant doctors, a nephrologist, two transplant administrative coordinators, and a translator. The admission of guilt relates to 109 illegal kidney transplant operations which took place between June 2001 and November 2003 within a scheme whereby Israeli citizens in need of kidney transplants would be brought to South Africa for transplants performed at St Augustine’s Hospital. en
dc.description.uri http://medlaw.oxfordjournals.org/ en_US
dc.identifier.citation Allain, J 2011, 'Trafficking of persons for the removal of organs and the admission of guilt of a South African hospital', Medical Law Review, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 117-122. en
dc.identifier.issn 0967-0742 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 1464-3790 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1093/medlaw/fwr001
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/17030
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Oxford University Press en_US
dc.rights © 2011 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Medical Law Review following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at : http://medlaw.oxfordjournals.org/. en_US
dc.subject Transplant operations en
dc.subject St Augustine’s Hospital en
dc.subject Netcare en
dc.subject Illegal kidney transplants en
dc.subject.lcsh Kidneys -- Transplantation -- South Africa -- Durban en
dc.subject.lcsh Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- South Africa -- Durban en
dc.subject.lcsh Organ trafficking -- South Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Human trafficking -- South Africa en
dc.title Trafficking of persons for the removal of organs and the admission of guilt of a South African hospital en
dc.type Postprint Article en


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