The police arrested the non-profit organisation's director on suspicion of violating the Organ Transplant Law. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO - A 45-year-old man who underwent a simultaneous kidney and liver transplant surgery in Belarus in early September last year died before the month was over, according to police sources. It was the second patient death related to overseas transplant operations arranged in Belarus last year by a non-profit organisation that is suspected of illegal activities.
According to MPD officials, Mr Kikuchi is suspected of arranging an overseas liver transplant for another man in his 40s who also subsequently died. He is said to have made the arrangements without permission from the health, labour, and welfare minister. That man’s condition worsened after the transplant surgery in February 2022 and he died in November 2022 after receiving a second transplant in Japan.
A person concerned said that the man had visited the NPO office because his worsening cirrhosis made it necessary for him to undergo both liver and kidney transplant surgery. He had learned about the NPO’s activities through its website.
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