The health ministry plans to question Kanazawa University Hospital officials to clarify how unlicensed brokers approached doctors there to help patients receive organ transplants overseas.
The decision came after the Ishikawa Prefecture hospital announced Monday that one of its doctors handed a referral form to a patient who is believed to be considering a transplant in China, ministry sources said.
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