Are we a hotspot for organ trafficking?
Aneesa Alphonsus Free Malaysia Today 27/3/2012
KUALA LUMPUR: That Malaysia is one of the hotspots for the harvesting of human organs may be difficult to digest for some but the fact remains that we are a country on the radar of Bangladeshi police.
In September 2010, a news report said Malaysia was among ‘several countries’ involved in a syndicate linked to illegal kidney trade.
The report, while shocking some, however came as no surprise to Aegile Fernandez, programme director with Tenaganita, simply because she remembers with clarity the first time she heard about human organ trafficking in Malaysia.
“It was in 2009, when word reached me that organs were being trafficked in Johor and linked to Indonesia and Singapore – the triangle of one of the hotspots where this activity was taking place.
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