Re: The Indian kidney bazaar

On Sep 13, 12:08 pm, Muhammad Javed Iqbal <kaleemjavediq...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Soothia aadmi Ekbal,if it happens in India,you pakis being 55% more
hungry and bhooka pauper nation than any one else in Asia,will be in a
worse off situation,forget kidney paki, except your paki brains,which
nobody will take for transplant and its not to be known if you pakis
have one,you will sell everything in your body.


Pakistan’s kidney bazaar
Wed, May 10 2006
Pakistan kidney bazaar
By Mata Press Service

Rich foreigners, including a number from Canada, are making a beeline
for Pakistan as the country makes world headlines for its "cheap
kidney bazaar", Pakistan’s health ministry in Islamabad said.

"The incidents of kidney selling by the poor are on the rise. Patients
from certain developed countries visit Pakistan to buy organs for
transplantation at local kidney centres," reveals an official summary
of the Health Ministry submitted to the Cabinet.

Pakistan’s Senate Standing Body on Health was told that foreigners
with kidney ailments are lured by "transplant tourism" come to
Pakistan to buy kidneys from the poor for about C$2,500 with the help
of local agents working in private hospitals in Rawalpindi.

The Cabinet met with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to consider new laws
to curb the practice.

Among those impacted by the proposed law, will be the Calgary-based
Overseas Medical Services, which arranges a speedy kidney donation and
transplant surgery through Lahore-based Aadil Hospital --for US$32,000
(C$35,605).

Aruna Thurairajan, a former Sri Lankan medical administrator who owns
the company, said that liver, pancreas and lung transplants are also
available.

At least two people from B.C. are among 10 Canadians who have made
enquiries with the company, which gets a 10 percent commission from
the hospital.

About a dozen Americans have also contacted Overseas Medical Services
about purchasing a kidney.

The company argued there is nothing unethical about the practice.

Companies like Overseas Medical Services stand to cash in on the organ
trade because of the long waiting lists in North America.

According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, about
4,000 Canadians are queuing for organs, but several hundred will
likely die yearly while on the list; 242 patients died while waiting
in 2004. In Canada only 1,795 patients received organ transplants in
2003.

Ken Donahue, communications manager for the British Columbia
Transplant Society said buying and selling of organs is illegal in
Canada.

"But the laws are different in other countries…Our laws do not prevent
people from travelling to other countries to get transplants," he told
The Asian Pacific Post.

Donahue said there are a lot of ethical and social concerns related to
the Calgary operation.

Pauline Buck, communications manager for the BC Branch of the Kidney
Foundation of Canada agreed. "It can lead to people, particularly
those in the Third World, of being taken advantage of for their
organs," she said.

Pakistan is not the only country that is coping with the legal and
ethical implications of organ sales. China recently imposed laws to
control the sale of body parts while in the Philippines, foreign
buyers are known to pay as little as C$2,000 for a kidney.

In one case, a man sold his kidney for a karaoke machine.

The Indian state of Punjab is another hotbed for the sale of body
parts.

Three years ago, the officials dismantled a group of doctors, lawyers,
middlemen and politicians of operating a $35 million racket in the
illegal sale of kidneys in northern India.

Investigators found that at least 24 donors had died because of a lack
of proper care after organs were taken.

This month, members of the same gang, who operated in the Sikh holy
city of Amritsar have resurfaced in Jalandhar.

Reports said a key member of the gang, who was out on bail, has built
another network in Jalandhar, allegedly in connivance with the same
group of doctors, who are facing trial in Amritsar.

Laborers especially from the neighboring poverty stricken states of
Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are lured by middlemen to sell their kidney
for about C$350 while the recipients are charged up to C$2,500.
.

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