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Urban Legend Or Gruesome Reality? Immigrants And Human Organ Trafficking

TURIN — There are journeys even more awful than the perilous crossings in rickety boats made by would-be immigrants trying to reach European shores. In these trips instead – made to Pakistan, Iran, Egypt or certain Eastern European countries – people sell a part of themselves: a journey of transplants, to places where the human […]

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Mexico’s Organ Problem Isn’t Lack Of Donors, It’s Lack Of Doctors

EL NACIONAL, LA JORNADA (Mexico) Worldcrunch MEXICO CITY – What if that kidney you needed for a transplant showed up, but the surgeon didn’t? That scenario is too often a reality in Mexico, says Arturo Dib Kuri, the director of the country’s National Transplant Center (CENATRA). Dib Kuri warned that Mexico loses around 20 percent […]

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