South African hospital pleads guilty to organ trafficking case

A South African hospital has pleaded guilty in an organ trafficking case, which included the removal of organs from five children.
 10 Nov 2010

South African police spokesman Col. Vishnu Naidoo said that Netcare KwaZulu, a hospital in South Africa's eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, will pay 7,820,000 rand (£704,000) in fines. The fine was handed down at Durban's commercial crime court after a plea-bargain agreement over the scandal at the city's St Augustine's hospital, run by the Netcare group, which runs the largest private hospital network in South Africa.

The plea agreement came after the hospital was charged in September with conducting 109 illegal operations between 2001 and 2003. the rest