Chinese police
arrested 137 people, among them doctors, suspected of trafficking human organs
in a nationwide.
Eighteen doctors were
among those detained, suspected of performing illegal transplant operations.
"The suspects
usually used forged identities“, - said autority.
According to media, Guide to the bodies of people in China
are very small compensation. In April that a teenage high-school
student sold a kidney for an illicit transplant operation and used the proceeds
to buy an iPhone.
More than 1.5 million
Chinese need organ transplants, but only about 10,000 such operations are
performed in the nation annually.
International human
rights groups have long accused China of harvesting organs.
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