Organ trafficking driven by high demand, low donations


Needful surgery: Doctors performing a legal organ transplant in HCM City. — Vietnam News/ANN

THE number of human organ trafficking crime has risen with increasingly sophisticated tricks and techniques, triggered by high demand and low rate of donation from brain dead donors, according to local authorities.

According to Senior Colonel Dinh Van Trinh, Deputy Head of Division 5, Criminal Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security, the criminals are organised with each individual in charge of different tasks in the procedures, including approaching, getting to know buyers and sellers, negotiating, faking the documents, in order to legalise their criminal acts in the name of humanitarian, not-for-profit purpose.

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