Purchased kidney may have been used in transplant at Ehime hospital
Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 16:55 EDT
MATSUYAMA — Police on Sunday arrested a man and raided a hospital in Ehime Prefecture in connection with allegations that a kidney used in a transplant operation there last year was purchased. The man, whose identity has not been released yet, is suspected of having brokered the kidney's trade in violation of the Organ Transplant Law.
From Japan Today
Down here in boonies we are proud that such a medical breakthrough would take place in our beloved prefecture.
