Three doctors in China have been arrested for allegedly carrying out illegal organ transplants at a private clinic, according to local authorities and state media.
Acting on a tip-off, police in Bazhou city in the northern province of Hebei arrested the doctors last month as they prepared to remove a kidney from a man, a local Communist Party official and police told AFP.
The case is under investigation, they said, declining to provide further details.
China banned organ transplants from living donors other than spouses, relatives and adopted family members in 2007, the official Xinhua news agency said. Full story...
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Acting on a tip-off, police in Bazhou city in the northern province of Hebei arrested the doctors last month as they prepared to remove a kidney from a man, a local Communist Party official and police told AFP.
The case is under investigation, they said, declining to provide further details.
China banned organ transplants from living donors other than spouses, relatives and adopted family members in 2007, the official Xinhua news agency said. Full story...
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