ISRAEL ,WHAT A NICE STATE IT IS! What pretty citizens it has!

Israel , the only democratic state of the Middle East , is the only state in the world which has legalized the torture . (The next one ? USA : Dershowitz is popularizing the idea!).

Israel , the only democratic state of the Middle East, is the only western state whose health institutions finance organ trade .

The level of medical morality , of human morality increases.!

This news are not given by the Muslims propaganda but by Haaretz ,a great Izraelian diary. :


Half of kidney transplants are illegal
By Ran Reznick
Haaretz: Fri . Dec 05 2003
 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/368636.html

About half of all kidney transplants performed on Israelis in recent years were illegal, while most transplant patients received funding from their health maintenance organizations, the Defense Ministry and insurance companies.

According to the Health Ministry and hospital records, about half of all Israelis who had kidney transplants in recent years obtained the organ in illegal trade from donors in Israel, Turkey, South America and eastern Europe.

Most Israelis had the transplants performed in South Africa. Some 450 patients are waiting for kidney transplants in Israel, but only 160 such operations are performed annually, with the majority or organs coming from deceased donors.

The average waiting time for an adult kidney transplant is three to four years, while for children it is seven months.

Some 300 Israelis are estimated to have bought kidneys abroad in illegal organ trade in the last four years. Senior doctors said that in some cases, organ traders and mediators negotiated directly with Israeli insurance companies for the illegal payments. Senior doctors and legal experts said Israel is the only western state whose health institutions finance organ trade.

Most organ transplant cases involve senior Israeli doctors from large hospitals, doctors said. Some of the doctors conduct preparatory examinations for kidney patients and donors in Israel, while some doctors accompany the patients and perform the illegal transplants abroad.

Doctors said there is no supervision of the kidney donors, and in some cases, the sold kidneys are transplanted abroad even though they are unsuitable or contain contagious diseases. The transplants are performed in public and private hospitals overseas, and sometimes even in private homes that lack adequate equipment or means for emergency medical treatment.
The data on kidney transplants was presented by doctors at a conference held last week by the Israeli branch of the American College of Surgery that dealt with the paying of transplant organs.

Doctors at the conference said that illegal organ trade is conducted in many countries, but Israel is the only western state whose medical establishment and Health Ministry do not condemn the doctors involved or take legal steps against them. In most states, the purchase of organs is illegal and morally deplored by the medical establishment, and those involved risk losing their license.
Prof. Amram Ayalon, the director of the transplants and surgery ward at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, said that unions of transplant doctors in Europe, where human organ trade is categorically prohibited, have called for a boycott of Israeli doctors.

One of the main reasons for the shortage of transplant organs in Israel is not the refusal of families to donate dead relatives' organs, but the ongoing failure of medical teams in public hospitals.

Prof. Pierre Singer, director of Beilinson's intensive care ward, presented data on the lack of awareness among medical teams, including surgeons, neurologists and intensive care doctors, regarding organ donation procedures and brain death determination.

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Four Israelis arrested in Brazil, S. Africa for organ trafficking
By Yuval Dror
Haaretz;Fri.December05,2003  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/368632.html

Police in northeastern Brazil have arrested two Israelis and nine Brazilians suspected of participation in an international human organ trafficking organization stretching from South America to South Africa. In South Africa, Durban police have arrested two additional Israelis.
The group, allegedly led by the Israelis, is believed to have scoured the cities of Pernambuco state over the past year searching for candidates willing to sell their kidneys, authorities said.
"In all, they managed to talk 30 men into selling one of their kidneys," Wilson Salles Damazio, head of the local Federal Police office, said from his office in the state capital of Recife, 2,150 kilometers northeast of Sao Paulo. "Each one received between $6,000 and $10,000."
Damazio said an investigation was being conducted to determine the extent of the trafficking.
"Those that passed a thorough medical checkup were sent to Durban, South Africa where their kidney was extracted," Damazio said. "After a brief recovery period they were flown back to Brazil."
The case also was being investigated in South Africa, where two other Israelis were arrested in Durban, said a spokeswoman for police there, Mary Martins-Engelbrecht.

The Israelis arrested in Durban were identified as Agania Robel, 42, who allegedly received a kidney, and Meir Shushan, 50, who allegedly acted as a middleman.

They appeared in the Durban Magistrates Court on Wednesday on charges of contravening the Human Tissue Act and must appear again in February, Martins-Engelbrecht said. They were released on bail but their passports have been confiscated, she said.

"We cannot exclude the possibility of more arrests. Our investigations are still continuing," she said.

Brazilian authorities didn't identify the suspects they arrested. Damazio said they could be sentenced to up to 15 years in jail.

The 30 men who sold their kidneys could also sentenced to up to eight years in jail.