Organ trade racket: ED searches leading private hospitals in Kerala
The Enforcement Directorate is raiding private hospitals across Kerala to investigate an alleged organ trafficking racket. Authorities suspect that hospital staff may have colluded with criminals to facilitate illegal transplants for financial gain.
Why it matters
This investigation exposes potential systemic corruption and human rights abuses within the private healthcare sector.
Several leading private hospitals across Kerala are being raided simultaneously by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as part of its probe into alleged money-laundering linked to a suspected organ trade racket busted by the State police in Kochi last month.
The report focuses on the investigative actions of government agencies regarding a criminal case.
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