Chair, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes that after seven years of vigorous denials, Netcare, South Africa's largest hospital group, has finally admitted to receiving cash for illegal kidney transplant operations that were performed at St Augustine's Hospital in Durban;
2) further notes that - a) the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed hospital group received millions of rands and paid a fine of just more than R4 million and agreed to a confiscation order of a further R3,8 million in terms of a plea bargain with the state, ratified by regional court Magistrate Kim de Freitas in the commercial crime court; and
b) the hospital group firmly implicates others charged with fraud, forgery, uttering, assault and contraventions of the Human Tissue Act relating to 109 kidney transplant operations done at the hospital in which, it is alleged, poor Brazilians were recruited and paid to donate their organs to relatively wealthy Israeli kidney patients; and
3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms such repulsive exploitation of the poor by the hospital and calls on the National Prosecuting Authority to ensure that all hospital groups involved in such repulsive practices are brought to book.
Motion agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.