Several months later, however, his case made headlines throughout Britain when his widow disclosed that her husband's kidney transplant had come from a Turkish citizen who was paid $3,300 to fly to Britain and donate the organ. The donor said he had decided to sell his kidney to pay for medical treatment for his daughter.
Concern here in Britain over issues raised in the case resulted in a law passed Friday in Parliament banning the sale of human organs for transplant.The same concerns and those over loopholes in the transplant laws in some other nations led the World Health Organization to condemn the practice recently.