Following the recent arrest of a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization's director on multiple charges of unauthorized mediation of overseas organ transplants, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has said it will survey about 200 medical institutions across the nation to investigate the actual state of transplants abroad.
The ministry unveiled the plan at a meeting of its Health Science Council's organ transplant committee on Monday.
A research group consisting of organ transplant surgeons and others will carry out the survey subsidized by the ministry from early April to mid-June. The survey will cover about 200 facilities, including hospitals performing organ transplants in Japan and those treating post-transplant patients.
