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Source: ONE News
Doctors say New Zealanders desperate for kidney transplants are using the internet to buy organs from third world countries.
Waitemata District Health Board Chief Medical Officer, Johan Rosman, says such instances are rare, but do happen. He says he has seen two cases.
Professor Rosman was speaking at a conference in Wellington on New Zealand's low organ donor rate.
He says he doesn't approve of the practice and would never recommend it.
However he says it can't be ignored and he suggests a safe hospital should be set up in a third world country for people buying organs, so they can receive healthy organs and be well cared for.
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