Doctors and Police Unite to Fight Organ Trafficking in Europe

November 26, 2014

(The Epoch Times) – European doctors, legal and law enforcement professionals gathered at the headquarters of Europol in The Hague on Nov. 21 to discuss the trafficking of human beings for the purpose of organ removal (THBOR). THBOR refers to when a patient travels to another country and receives an organ obtained through coercion or use of force. “We conducted a survey of organ transplant professionals in the Netherlands and almost half of doctors have treated patients who went abroad, and in most of these cases they had suspicions that the kidney was purchased illegally in Pakistan, Iran, and China,” said Frederike Ambagtsheer, researcher at Erasmus MC University Hospital in Rotterdm.