By Barbara Cole
A decision is to be made this week on who is to be prosecuted in the alleged international kidney transplant trafficking scandal which allegedly involved St Augustine's Hospital and eight KwaZulu-Natal doctors, specialists and staff.
And a decision will also be made on what the proposed charges "the participants" should respond to, said Advocate Robin Palmer, a law professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, who has been called in to prosecute the case.
Charges were provisionally withdrawn two years ago against the doctors and Netcare transplant unit staff to allow the State time for further investigations.
The accused had been charged with contraventions of the Human Tissues Act relating to 109 kidney operations allegedly performed at the hospital.
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The initial charges involved allegations that a syndicate recruited kidney donors from Brazil, who were paid between R40 000 and R160 000 for their organs.
The kidneys were allegedly transplanted to patients between 2001 and 2003.
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