Wednesday, 16 September 2009

110K buys a good kidney but not good health

100K buys recipient a good kidney, but not good health, and results in the death of a young Chinese girl.from Hypertension, Dialysis and Clinical Nephrology - Kidney CNN: The family's story is one of several that have come to light in recent weeks as part of a worldwide CNN investigation into what appears to be a widespread black market in human organs, a network now being probed by authorities in Israel and the United States. Nagauker went to China, where his daughter said he was taken to a rural hospital and given the kidney of an 18-year-old Chinese girl. Shai captured images on her cell phone of her father in what she described as a filthy hospital. The surgery went poorly, and the girl who donated the kidney died shortly after surgery, Shai said. "They gave her $5,000, and she died," she said.

Link:http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/02/organ.brokers/

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