The kidney racketeers who got a transplant operation done in a city hospital apparently presented a fool-proof case to the hospital authorisation committee.
TOI had disclosed on Sunday how an unrelated donor had given his kidney to a Delhi-based patient for Rs 2 lakh and operation was performed in city.
The racketeers presented the donor as brother of the patient while in reality he was a criminal. They even got "an English-speaking woman" to pose as donor's wife. These people were interviewed on video and passed muster with the committee.
Still, the disclosure of the racket has rattled the medical fraternity of the city--specially nephrologists and urologists--who say the episode would be a setback to kidney transplant programme in city.
One section of practitioners feels for no fault of theirs the doctors who did the transplant in Nagpur have been linked to the racket. Another section does not rule out the possibilities of involvement of hospital administration and doctors.
Dr Raju Deshmukh, director of Suretech Hospital where the transplant was done, says he and his hospital were cheated by Sunil Deshmukh, its former hospital administration officer and one of the accused.
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