Patients from the Middle East have controversially spent up to GBP£1m (US$1.5m) on acquiring replacement livers from donors in the UK, according to a newspaper report in Britain.
One of London's leading hospitals confirmed to the Daily Mail that 19 private overseas buyers had purchased organs in the last two years. King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said that many of the buyers came from Dubai, Kuwait and Libya.
The hospital, which is operated by Britain's government-administered health service, would not confirm how much had been paid for each transplant.
The newspaper said that there are currently 550 patients on the NHS's waiting list for livers, with one in six expected to die before they receive a transplant.
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