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Inquiry ordered into kidney trade

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BANGALORE: The State Government on Tuesday an inquiry headed by Joint Commissioner of Police, Bangalore, Gopal B. Hosur, assisted by officials from various departments to go into the unauthorised kidney transplantation cases reported recently in Nelamangala Police Station in Bangalore Rural District.

Briefing reporters after a meeting with senior officials, Health and Family Welfare Minister R. Ashok said the officials such as the Deputy Commissioner of Police in the City Crime Branch Ravikanthe Gowda would assist Mr. Hosur in the inquiry. He had been asked to complete the investigations and file a report to the Government within two months.

He said three teams of officials, including doctors from the Health Department, would be deputed to visit all the 29 hospitals throughout the State for examining the documents on the kidney transplantations done in the last five years. The teams had been asked to submit their reports within a week. The Government would go through the reports received from Mr. Hosur and the teams and decide the action to be taken against the offenders. Mr. Ashok said 94 kidney transplantations had taken place up to July 2007 in the State.

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