COLOMBO: Sri Lanka banned kidney transplants for foreign nationals on Thursday following reports of an organized organ-harvesting racket involving patients and donors from neighboring India.

Health minister Rajitha Senaratne said he ordered the immediate halt after Indian police warned Sri Lankan authorities that some patients from India had paid donors for organs and had the transplants carried out at private hospitals in Colombo.

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