周四一家当地新闻网站报道，警方扣留了三名非法移植肾脏的医务工作人员。
Police have detained three medical workers for illegally conducting kidney transplants, a local news website reported Thursday.
中国河北省霸州市警方表示自9月23日消息报道称中国东部山东省一家公立医院医务工作人员非法移植肾脏事件后，他们也突袭了这家诊所。
Police in Bazhou, North China's Hebei province said they raided the clinic after being tipped off medical workers from a public hospital in East China's Shandong province were conducting illegal kidney transplants on Sept 23.
警员黄凯称当他们破门而入这家上锁的诊所时，当场所有人都吓住了。“他们都穿着长袍。肾脏供体正躺在手术台上等着被麻醉。”
Huang Kai, a police officer, said all the people were "stunned" when the police cracked into the locked clinic, "They were all dressed in robes. The kidney donor was lying on the operating table waiting to be anaesthetized."
However the beneficiary, who was supposed to be implanted with the kidney, had already left, repulsed by the condition of the clinic, said Huang.
Eight people, including three medical workers, were detained. The three come from Dezhou People's Hospital in Dezhou city, East China's Shandong province. They are a urinary surgeon, an anesthetist and a head nurse.
An official of the hospital surnamed Yuan told iqilu.com that the three had been away for more than 10 days, "We just heard some rumors. It's their personal behavior and has nothing to do with the hospital… we haven't been informed by any government department of such things."
The owners of the clinic are still at large. They are part of an underground national network of illegal organ transplants, and the three medical workers were introduced to the network by one of its agents, Huang said.
"They would have charged the beneficiary 280,000 yuan ($43,870), given the donator 20,000 yuan, and divided up the rest among themselves," said Huang.
The case has been reported to the public security bureau of Hebei province and the Ministry of Public Security.
