A hospital run by President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s brother and Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Colombo is offering illegally trafficked kidneys by an international organ dealer, the UK based Times has revealed in an investigation.
The organ dealer promises to arrange surgery at Lanka Hospitals of which is chaired by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the report reveals.
The government-controlled hospital in Colombo is being recommended to patients from Britain and elsewhere a suitable place to receive an organ purchased for tens of thousands of pounds on the black market.
Lanka Hospitals was previously Apollo Hospitals.
Lanka Hospitals chief executive Lakith Peiris said in a statement to The Times all transplants were legally carried out and that additional documents were required from foreign patients, including an affidavit that the donor had not received additional payments.
PalmSquirrell / November 13, 2013
Times article is clearly all LTTE/NGO/Nefarious foreign plot to bemirch the good name of Rajapakistan / CHOGM host.
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ruwan / November 13, 2013
Right On GENIUS Palm Squirrell ! Now get your head out of your as_ !
GOOD NAME OF RAJAPAKSES ? When DID they have a good name to begin with ? !
Are you the joker in the Jarapakse court ? !
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Max Silva / November 13, 2013
Where’s the prestigious Scotland yard?I am sure that the Brits admire us.Who knows one of these days David Miliband might want to try one of those transplants.Even Callum Macrae is welcome.Macrae whose only hobby is sleeping with the defeated Tamil terrorists might want our services.It’s no secret that the defeated Tamil tigers are experts in[Edited out].So in case Macrae happens to be inflicted with venereal disease, by courtesy of the defeated Tamil terrorists,he is welcome in Colombo to obtain a transplant on his “not so private parts”.
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Sam / November 13, 2013
“It’s no secret that the defeated Tamil tigers are experts in group sex escapades” Where do you pull this crap from? I mean…what???? Actually dig me up one article accusing an LTTE cadre of rape (I doubt you’ll find even one,) I’ll dig you up 50 with witnesses accusing the Sri Lankan army of systematic rape and sexual torture, many from 2013. We don’t hate Sri Lanka or the Sinhalese. We want YOU to be freed from an oppressive regime and to open your eyes!
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Katmai / November 13, 2013
Ah, don’t worry about is Sam. These are the people whom the regime spends millions on PR campaigns. When you see how stupid these idiots are we should be thankful that money can’t by everything.
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Palayang yako! / November 13, 2013
Colombo Telegraph:
Don’t you have a policy not to reproduce FILTH like Max Silva’s post?
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Max Silva / November 14, 2013
PALAYANG YAKO!
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Ben Hurling / November 13, 2013
Is this how GOSL plans to develop “Organic Farming” in Sri Lanka?
What the heck is Gota doing at Lanka Hospitals? Involved in healthcare as well? Is there anything in SL where this guy is not invloved in?
Where did he get the knowledge & experience required to run a private hospital?
And Why, oh..why?
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Silly Mid-off / November 13, 2013
Over 140,000 Kidneys and other organs collected during May 2009 in the Tamil areas and many more on those abducted in White Vans, kidnappings of business persons, from Welikade and other jails Apollo Hospitals and others under the control of the regime’s VIPs, anyone having access to these can make a fortune from Western clients. You cannot always hide the identity of the people behind these gruesome rackets – that includes those involved in people-smuggling to Australia and so on. Oh! to be in the comfort of unbridled power!!
Silly Mid-Off
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The Professional / November 13, 2013
Pl get medical opinion on your kidney functions. It appears that you are born with your brain in the place where the kidneys should have been. Go to Lanka Hospital and get the specialists to put your brain and kidneys in the right places.
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sarojini / November 13, 2013
Silly mid of where do you get your statics from ?
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KGE / November 13, 2013
This is called gutter journalism, read the following part and the given link
“There is no evidence that Lanka Hospitals Corporation was aware of the arrangement and there is no suggestion of wrongdoing by the hospital or other people working for Mediease.
Lanka Hospitals chief executive Lakith Peiris said in a statement to The Times all transplants were legally carried out and that additional documents were required from foreign patients, including an affidavit that the donor had not received additional payments.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/britons-sold-illegal-kidneys-for-sri-lanka-surgery-8934221.html
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PalmSquirrell / November 13, 2013
So Lanka hospital honchos had no inclination, no suspicions from where the Kidneys were coming from. Somehow I don’t believe they are that naieve, because most everyone in Colombo is a crook /scammer etc…, and the people who live there know not to trust anyone and corruption is the norm.
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Silly Mid-off / November 13, 2013
KGE – To get “an affidavit that the donor had not received additional payments” is so simple. There are hundreds of Attorneys-at-Law without
work and they will oblige for a few hundred rupees. It is common in India too. These are some of the “new trades” Chinese will gladly teach you – as they are the pioneers in this racket.
Silly Mid-Off
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KGE / November 13, 2013
Didn’t you read this part.
“There is no evidence that Lanka Hospitals Corporation was aware of the arrangement and there is no suggestion of wrongdoing by the hospital or other people working for Mediease.”
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KING SOLOMON / November 13, 2013
CHUM, YOU BELIEVE THAT AND YOU WILL EVEN BELIEVE YOUR MOTHER IS A MAN.
DON’T BE BLOODY NAIVE.
THE ARTICLE HAS GIVEN SPACE FOR THE HOSPITAL’S RIGHT OF REPLY. HOW MUCH MORE BALANCED DO YOU WANT IT TO BE? OK. SO WHERE DID THE BODY PARTS COME FROM.
THAT’S A HUMDINGER, A A A A.A,A [FORGIVE ME STUTTERING ON THE WORD] A POTENTIAL HORNET’S NEST. IF ANYONE CLAIMS OWNERSHIP THERE’S THE LITTLE MATTER OF DNA PROOF. THE SHIT, A WHOLE LOT OF IT, COULD THEN HIT THE FAN. ON THE OTHER HAND, IT COULD BE COMPLETELY ABOVE BOARD. SO DON’T GET ALL TANGLED UP ANYWHERE. EASY FELLA. I’M SSURE THIS IS NOT THE LAST WE WILL HEAR OF THIS BUMMER.
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Katmai / November 13, 2013
Does it really matter what KGE believe? He is here to counter any accusation on Lanka Hospitals. What a way to make a living uh? And I bet he’s a doctor too.
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sarojini / November 13, 2013
hope your comment is read by SILLY MIDOFF . This is what journalism is . The small print giving the correct information comes at the bottom of a sensational story . The heading wets the appetites for silly people, who only reads the heading , and the end is for escaping legal action for defamation . BY the way Gothabya holds only a honorary position in Lanka hospitals .Many more of these stories will emerge , wait for it. maybe they are waiting for the best for last before CHOGM ends
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Katmai / November 13, 2013
Looks like Sarojini knows so much about how Lanka Hospitals is run. Isn’t it silly of me to expect anything but whole hearted support from her for the sheit that goes on there.
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AYMAN / November 13, 2013
WHAT ABOUT THE MILLIONS OF “ALL ISLAND J.P’s” ? who will attest.
IN THE OLD DAYS J.P. AND J.P, U.P.M. WAS A WELL RESPECTED PERSON.
TODAY, THESE ARE DOLED OUT TO ALL SORTS OF DUBIOUS CHARACTERS AS A MEANS TO “MAKE A BUCK”.
NOW WE HAVE “DESHSBANDUS” WHO ARE “DESHAPANDUS”
HOW ABOUT THIS ? DESHABANDU DR. A.S.P. GURUGE SENT AS
AMBASSADOR TO NIGERIA.
HE HAS BEEN SENT TO ORGANIZE “PADURU PARTIES” FOR THE
TERRORISTS ” BOKO HARAM”
THIS IS SRI LANKA ONCE THE PEARL OF THE INDIAN OCEAN.
NOW “THE URINE DROP OF INDIA” !!!!!
THIS IS NOT FROM “RIPLEYS BELIEVE IT OR NOT”
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Lanka Liar / November 13, 2013
No body believe a Sri Lankan. So what is the point in quoting a Sri Lankan.
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Max Silva / November 13, 2013
KGE,
Don’t take these buggers who are in the pay off of the defeated Tamil terrorists seriously.These buggers murdered their own princess(Diana) and banned the documentary “Unlawful killing”.
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AYMAN / November 13, 2013
YOU SAY; ” THEY ARE IN THE PAY OF THE DEFEATED TAMIL TERRORISTS”
YOU MAY HAVE WON THE WAR, KILLED V.P., THEN YOU ARE HAVING K.P. AND PILLAIYAN IN YOUR WARM EMBRACE.
THESE ARE THE SINHALESE WHO JUST GAVE THEIR COUNTRY TO THE BRITISHERS ON A PLATTER. THEY DID NOT HAVE TO FIGHT.
THE TAMILS FOUGHT BECAUSE THEY WERE DENIED THEIR RIGHTS.
THATS WHY STILL THEY HAVE A SAY ALL ROUND THE GLOBE.
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sach / November 13, 2013
yep gutter journalism at its best!
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Percy Jilmart / November 13, 2013
@KGE
Click on this link, enlarge and read again!
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/002.jpg
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Burt / November 13, 2013
This gives a new twist to white vans and regular disappearances occurring in Sri Lanka which the govt has no interest in solving.
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sarojini / November 13, 2013
Over quarter of a million people have disappeared in the UK last year . ( ref to ITV programme shown last night on “disappearances , without a trace )
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J.Muthu / November 13, 2013
Iyo Sinhala Buddhist modayas when r u going to wake up. I know u wont becos u all dumps….
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demon silva / November 13, 2013
This is one of his many illegal business. Do you remember the white van operation?
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aratai / November 13, 2013
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Is it a Tamil kidney or Sinhalese kidney?
:-)
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PalmSquirrell / November 13, 2013
Will have to do a DNA test, although I doubt that will prove anything because despite BBS and Sinhala Nationalist claims, they aren’t racially much distinct from Tamils.
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Lanka Liar / November 13, 2013
Not hard to find out. The one which lies is a Sinhalese kidney the other one will be Tamil one. Just ask the time the Sinhalese will give you the wrong time. Easy isnt it?
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sach / November 13, 2013
I get it Tamils speak using the kidney? finally an answer!
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Lanka Liar / November 13, 2013
Sinhalease kidney speaking. Didn’t I tell you
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Sengodan. M / November 13, 2013
Kidneys removed from the disappeared. Does it matter whether they were Tamil or Sinhala- just ordinary humans. That’s all!
Sengodan. M
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shankar / November 13, 2013
“Is it a Tamil kidney or Sinhalese kidney?”
Aratai,this has given me an idea.What if mahinda and Wignesvaran exchange one of their kidneys.Will it not send the message across to all our people that we are all the same when they see that both are living happily ever after.Also everytime channel 4 puts out an allegation mahinda can say i’am also part tamil.
mahinda has so many advisors,can you give me one contact number to ask them to give this advice to mahinda.Who says you can’t fool all the people all the time.It can be done if you go the last mile.
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aratai / November 14, 2013
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I like the idea…but can they really do it? With this ‘corruption regime’, both kidneys may get lost in transit, and both of them have to live with only one kidney.
:-)
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truth / November 14, 2013
How can you be so sure that Mahinda is a Sinhalese?
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shankar / November 15, 2013
After getting mahinda’s kidney wiggie might start blabbering in malay and mahinda’s ancestry will be exposed to all.
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Safa / November 13, 2013
Kidneys, Casinos, Land you name it.
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AYMAN / November 13, 2013
WHAT IS IT,FOR BUGGERS WHO EXPORT THEIR WIVES, MOTHERS AND SISTERS BY THE THOUSANDS TO ARAB MUSLIM COUNTRIES TO EARN THE DOLLARS.
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shankar / November 13, 2013
How can locals afford to play in casinos without butchering and selling someone’s kidneys.Do you want only foreighners to enjoy casinos.
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Dr. Maverick / November 13, 2013
[Edited out]
LTTE was a terrorist group but their kidneys are worth to consume and enjoy luxury.
Halal is bad but the Riyals sent by the domestic servants are good for the SL Economy.
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Anam / November 13, 2013
Why is Gota short of money, greedy
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Ravi / November 13, 2013
All srilankans who loves the mother land , please understand this article is published to tarnish the image of this country. The article and author clearly says that there is no evidence that hospital is involved. How can the hospital go and see what’s done in India? Mr Peiris had stated that they take additional precautions to safe guard the interest of the donor. Please raise against these brokers who makes money at the expense of the health but not the hospitals- they are not CIDs to see who paid money and who is genuine
Think wisely – don’t bring politics in health care
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Point of View / November 13, 2013
Unfortunately, politics and corruption is already in healthcare, Ravi.
Do you know how difficult it is for respectable Companies to get good drugs registered in Sri Lanka ? Their unwillingness to bribe the officials has deprived us access to high quality drugs. Where as any Tom, Dick and Harry can bribe these drugs approving officials and flood the country with cheap drugs.
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AYMAN / November 13, 2013
THE ENTIRE HEALTH SYSTEM IS RUN BY A MAFIA.
THE ROT STARTED WITH “SIRIPALA” AND IT IS BEING CONTINUED BY
POLONNARUWA PADDY RACKETEER “MAITHREEBALA”
“GOTA” WOULD HAVE STARTED THIS BUSINESS, WITH “TIGER” KIDNEYS.
THESE BUGGERS HAVE NO SCRUPLES.
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sach / November 13, 2013
exactly!……..media especially sinhala media personal who are critical of MR do not understand that these persons do not want only MR’s head but it is the country. They are attacking the country, but these brainless stooges who call themselves journalists think anything criticising MR or an one in gov is going to remove MR and finally help the country. It is an unfortune of SL that we dont have media personnal like the ones in US and even India. That is patriotic media personal. CT also falls under this stupid media who think tarnishing MR would help SL.
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shankar / November 13, 2013
“All srilankans who loves the mother land “
They love their motherland but love their kidneys more.Ravi please don’t take their kidneys.That is all they are left with now,poor people.
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crazyoldmansl / November 13, 2013
Holy F—! I am selling my shares in this Lanka ——— and shall never invest in anything Lanka again.
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AYMAN / November 13, 2013
GOOD DECISION. I HOPE OTHERS WILL FOLLOW
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Sri Lankan / November 13, 2013
first, this news item has nothing to do with CHOGM or the LTTE, though the perfect timing suggests the intention. Silly-mid-off is being silly all right, and is completely OFF! one cannot store 140,000 kidneys and transplant them whenever they wish.
The comments, most of them belong in the gutter, because they clearly display the racism of those who have written.
you guys need to read the full articles in the Times before drawing conclusions, that is if you wish to be fair by others.
Please do not edit and will not comment again.
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AYMAN / November 13, 2013
GOOD DECISION. I HOPE OTHERS WILL FOLLOW
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Burt / November 13, 2013
Are you saying they killed 140,000 innocent Tamils but did not harvest their kidney. WOW
Do you know what happened to all those that took one way white van rides? You seem to know about the 140,000, can you shed some light on this?
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AYMAN / November 13, 2013
THE HEALTH MINISTER, THE MINISTRY AND A LARGE NUMBERS CONSTITUTE THE DRUG MAFIA.
AFTER A THYROID OPERATION A PATIENT WAS PRESCRIBED 100mcgs. THYROXINE
DAILY. THIS PATIENT USED AN INDIAN PRODUCT CALLED “ELTROXIN” WHICH COST RS.2/-. THE PATIENT USED IT AND LIVED AND IS STILL ALIVE.
ONE FINE DAY THE MINISTRY/SPC ORDERED IT OFF THE SHELVES. THE ALTERNATIVE WAS ANOTHER BRAND COSTING 8/-RS.
NOW THE “OLD INDIAN DRUG” IS BACK. IT COSTS 8/-RS.
CAN OUR MAFIA GIVE AN EXPLANATION.
THERE WILL SOON BE DIVINE RETRIBUTION.
THE TYPHOON HAS KILLED IN PHILLIPINNES, AND NOW COMING CLOSE TO VIETNAM
IT WILL SOON BE IN SRI LANKA, AND YOU CAN BE SURE IT WILL HIT
HAMBANTOTA FIRST.
SUBHA ANAGATHEYAK.
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Point of View / November 13, 2013
Absolutely. When everything fails, nature takes over !
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shankar / November 13, 2013
Now not only the missing have to be found,their bodies have to be checked to see whether internal organs are removed.For example Pradeep Eknaligoda’s kidneys must be in some white persons body and someone would have got a handsome 50000 dollars at least.
These things are being done everywhere.This year alone 463 housemaids bodies have been sent back from the gulf minus their internal organs.The housewife for whom the house maid worked would have made a tidy sum after killing her.many hosemaids may be recruited with the intention of harvesting their organs.
When an organ can fetch minimum 50000 dollars from a desperate grateful person with one foot in the grave,we all have to be careful our organs are not harvested by somebody.In china prisoners are being executed at a rate in order to get at the organs.Wonder from where gota must have got this white van brainwave from?Of all the companies he could have invested in why choose a hospital?
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Peace Dove / November 13, 2013
This type of garbage journalism tarnishes the credibility of CT.
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sbarrkum / November 13, 2013
Anyone thought of Steve Jobs and the District Quota System.
i.e. study in Colombo and do A/L’s in Amapara
or: live in California and get Transplant in Tennessee .
See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/business/23liver.html?ref=technology
Waiting times for a liver vary in different parts of the country, and people who can afford to travel are free to go to a city or state with the shortest wait and bide their time until they have reached the top of the list, a donor dies and an organ becomes available. Indeed, some patients rent apartments or stay in hotels near a hospital and wait for the phone to ring. It may not seem fair, but it is not illegal.
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Lapatiya / November 13, 2013
“Gota In Illegal Kidneys Trafficking Business – London Times Reveals”
So what is the big deal? Majority of us remove our Hearts on our own and Given to our Saddrmadveepa Chakrawarthi to kill Innocent peoples. We, Heartless peoples were watching killing Peoples, abducting, Gang Raping young kids. Robbing and Looting National wealth, Nepotism, Corruption etc. without doing anything.
We, Heartless people go after Utter Corrupted Politicians for Bath Packet, 1/2 bottle of Arrack do anything as they wish.
Our G.O.N King raped the Independent Judiciary while Heartless people were watching.
Unarmed Civilians were killed at peaceful protests and Unarmed Prisoners killed while Heartless people watching.
Male and Female Organs of 167 Members of Parliaments were already removed with their Consent.
Human Rights, Media Freedom were abusing while Heartless people were watching.
Wasting hard earned public money as it is their own property while Impotent society watching.
They remove our Brains by Giving more and more Deshapremaya, Jaathi Aalaya, Bahumika Akandathawaya (Territorial Intergrity) Jaathiya, Aagama, Nidahasa, Mawbiama etc. etc.
They remove our Brains and then remove our Male Organs and now remove our Kidney’s. there is nothing to surprise. anything can happen in our Impotent society.
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Thondamanaru / November 13, 2013
Soooooooooooo the bankrupt Empire & her citizens are selling their Kidneys for cash?????????
Hilarious………. Comedy of the Millenium.
First world country citizens selling their Kidneys.
However, Sri Lanka should not buy or offer or accept even for free if their brains were offered.
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manel fonseka / November 13, 2013
So where’s the TIMES leader article? Please share that, too, CT.
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Jim Hardy / November 13, 2013
OMG this is unbelievable.
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Fathima Fukushima / November 14, 2013
Fantastic!
Operate Tamils’ kidneys and export them.
Or give to CKD patients. Its well worth it.
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Bensen Burner / November 14, 2013
The donors must be the victims of the white van abductions. Bensen
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Stewart Sloan / November 14, 2013
My late wife died from complications due to end stage renal failure after a two year struggle to find a suitable donor. While I abhor illegal harvesting of organs (which happens) I can understand the desperation of some patients.
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sooriya / November 14, 2013
Tamil Sri Lankan Foreign Minister,Luxman Kadiragamr was planted a Buddhist Monk’s kidney…Why only “Kidney” plays a big role…We have eye bank and blood bank donated by people…Gota might be the chairman of the Hospital…He has no time to involve all these things while he has lot to do with the disabled war hreos and the country security and development process…If not rajapksa brothers this country has been supressed by Tamil Teroorists…Long live you Gota…! This kind of news fore white countries is good for Tamil Ass Lickers of whites…Lick Lick Lick…until you die…lick the ass of whites….bloddy smelly Tamils…
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David / November 14, 2013
Can we please please see some evidence to support this not just a report.
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M.Sivananthan / November 15, 2013
Anton Balasingam got kidneys. From where and whose kidneys? LTTE killed the Tamils and harvested the body parts to sell them in Tamil nadu.
//Lanka Hospitals was previously Apollo Hospitals.
Lanka Hospitals chief executive Lakith Peiris said in a statement to The Times all transplants were legally carried out and that additional documents were required from foreign patients, including an affidavit that the donor had not received additional payments.//
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Lesly / January 23, 2014
I want to donate my kidney. my blood group is O+. Im in sri lanka. I hope Rs.1200000. contact – 0711270673
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Jadeja Kumar / July 6, 2015
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