Ministry looks into Cambodia kidney scandal

8 July 2014
The Nation
Constitution and rights / Health care policy and administration / Law and judiciary / Laws and regulations / Public health / Social development
Anti-Human Trafficking Police Division / Department of Health Service Support / Thares Karasnairaviwong

The Thai Public Health Ministry is looking into a report published in The Cambodia Daily about a Cambodian woman allegedly running an organ-transplant racket in which she reportedly persuades people to sell their kidney to patients in Thailand. Dr Thares Karasnairaviwong, deputy director general of the Department of Health Service Support, said his office was cross-checking information about kidney transplants with the 26 hospitals that are allowed to conduct organ transplants. These hospitals are registered with the Thai Red Cross Society’s Organ Donation Centre. …

 Suriyan Panyawai
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