CHIBA (Kyodo) A hospital in Chiba Prefecture with a track record of successful organ transplants considered committing itself to a kidney transplant brokered by a person suspected of illegally engaging in transplants in China, according to sources.
The National Hospital Organization Chiba-East Hospital discussed whether to accept the offer at a meeting of an in-house ethics committee in January — unaware the 49-year-old broker was behind the deal — before deciding not to give the go-ahead to the transplant, the sources said.
A doctor who was assigned to handle the deal said a man living in the Kanto region visited the hospital a few times beginning last November and offered to donate one of his kidneys for free.