Trafficking of Persons for the Removal of Organs and the Admission of Guilt of a South African Hospital

Trafficking of Persons for the Removal of Organs and the Admission of Guilt of a South African Hospital

Trafficking of Persons for the Removal of Organs and the Admission of Guilt of a South African Hospital

In November 2010, Netcare Kwa-Zulu (Pty) Limited pleaded guilty to 102 counts related to charges stemming from having allowed its ‘employees and facilities to be used to conduct . . . illegal kidney transplant operations,’ within a scheme whereby Israeli citizens in need of kidney transplants would be brought to South Africa for transplants performed at St Augustine’s Hospital. This report describes the case and its significance.