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600 foreigners underwent kidney transplants in Sri Lanka

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More than 600 foreigners had undergone kidney transplant surgery at several leading private hospitals in Sri Lanka in the past two years, a report says.

The report, handed over to the health minister on February 08, has been prepared by a five-member committee that inquired into an alleged kidney transplant racket in the country.

It says the committees appointed at hospital level to ascertain the identities of the receivers and the donors of the kidneys had acted in a shady manner.

Indian police has said that a racketeer by the name Suresh Prajapathi had got around 60 surgeries performed.

He had bribed these committees.

A top official at the health ministry questioned the omission of the identities of the surgeons who had performed the the surgeries, and the doctors named by the Indian media as middlemen in the racket.

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