In the wake of the kidney transplant malpractice case involving Pune’s Ruby Hall Clinic, doctors from the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation (ISOT) and other professional associations have clarified that organ transplant professionals are neither required to certify the relationship between donors and recipients nor competent to detect illegal financial deals.

“Doctors are being made scapegoats here,” Dr Sunil Shroff, president of the ISOT, said at a press conference, adding that said the laws were already tough but there were no easy solutions to end malpractices. “We need to sit down with authorities and if there is a need for a policeman to come on board and verify identification, so be it. However, enough is enough…..Readmore