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UNIAN: Private clinic outside Kyiv suspected of illegal organ transplantation

By UNIAN.

Published Oct. 18, 2019 at 5:12 pm

Two nurses look at surgeon XXX and his staff performing a renal transplantation on patient Juan Benito Druet at La Paz hospital in Madrid on Feb. 28, 2017. Doctors in Spain performed 4,818 transplants on 2016, including 2,994 kidney transplants, according to the health ministry's National Transplant Organisation (ONT). That means there were 43.4 organ donors per million inhabitants last year, a world record, up from 40.2 donors in 2015. By comparison in the United States there were just 28.2 donors per million inhabitants in 2015, in France there were 28.1 donors and in Germany there were 10.9 donors, according to the Council of Europe.

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Police officers have suspected a private clinic in the town of Boryspil, Kyiv region, of illegal organ transplantation.

The investigation found that unauthorized organ transplant surgeries could be performed there, the police press service said on October 18.