Police Probing Widescale Sale Of Kidneys Across India

[lovuian]

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Police Probing Widescale Sale Of Kidneys Across India
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IANS Saturday 11th September, 2004

Police in India are on the lookout for people who received kidneys in an organ transplant racket.

The operation unearthed in the Indian capital New Delhi and is believed to be operation across the country.

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I can't freakin believe this one...:crazy:

[burythehatchet]

1. SSSSHHHH...you'll give chenee some crazy idea

...he may count it as a job.

[lovuian]

2. LOL!!!

:crazy:

[struggle4progress]

3. kick for the ownership society

:kick: "starving? somebody else can own your kidneys!" :kick:

[Bhaisahab]

4. That's nothing new

We Indians are masters at trading our kidneys to pay for this n that. There was even a very popular movie on the subject, where a soccer player trades his kidney to pay for his daddy's health bills and can't play soccer any more.
It's grim.

[Djinn]

5. big in the Phillipines too

People from western nations pay up to a couple of hundred thousand while the donor gets very little, while also reducing his or her life span and certainly their quality of life. Any medical assistance/drugs needed after the op come out of the donation fee further reducing it's worth, but when you're hungry and have little else the world considers valuable....

http://asiaobserver.com/Phillippines-story1.htm

[TahitiNut]

6. 813 Google hits.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Sale+Of+Kidneys%22&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I'd be willing to bet a kidney against $50,000 that there's a strong positive correlation between the Gini index in the country and the illicit sale of human transplant organs in that same country.