Reality of overseas organ transplants / Trafficking worries mean recipients rejected by medical institutions

The Yomiuri Shimbun Parts of a pamphlet provided to prospective organ recipients by the Intractable Disease Patient Support Association (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

Some recipients of organ transplants abroad were refused medical examinations or regular visits to hospitals in Japan, contrary to explanations they had received from a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization that facilitated the surgeries, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

Medical institutions in Japan apparently suspected trafficked organs were used in these patients' transplants.