Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Famous American journalist Dan Rather to host TV documentary on black market organ trafficking, Moldova mentioned

Famous American journalist Dan Rather, who hosts a news show entitled Dan Rather Reports on HDnet, will present a documentary on the black market in organ trafficking today.

Moldova will be covered in the documentary.

An excerpt from HDnet's announcement about the show:
"But renowned University of California, Berkeley anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes has been chasing kidney traffickers for more than a decade - and she brought us along on this hunt, spanning three continents, to some of the world's hot spots for organ trafficking: a poor village in Moldova, where more than a dozen young men had sold their kidneys; the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, where she tried to track down the whereabouts of a rogue surgeon known as "Dr. Vulture;" and to Israel, where we filmed a violent confrontation between one alleged broker and a family member of a recipient recovering from a botched, black market transplant."

The television station is not available in Moldova via cable, unfortunately. It is provided by on demand cable companies in the U.S.

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