Organ trade to cost foreigners 20 years in jail
Friday, May 2nd, 20081/5/08
The Philippines is banning kidney transplants for foreigners from next month as part of a crackdown on a growing but illicit trade in human organs bought from the poor. Foreigners who violate it, as well as the middlemen, can be jailed for up to 20 years and fined two million pesos ($51,000), the Health Secretary, Francisco Duque III, said on Tuesday. Foreigners related to Filipino citizens by blood are exempted from the ban, Mr Duque said.
