The Cruellest Cut - Pakistan's Kidney Mafia

July 2007
More and more Westerners - including Australians, it appears - are travelling abroad to get transplants, particularly kidneys - currently the world's most sought-after organ. This boom in so-called transplant tourism has caused the World Health Organisation to recently express alarm at the sale of kidneys by poor donors to cater for this surging demand. Manzoor's kidney was his only valuable position. Selling it was meant to cover his debts. But he ended up even further in debt when he developed post operative problems and had to buy medicine.

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[c47v3770]

pretty depressing..

[TheFutureLooksGrimm]

What I don't understand is why all these poor people in 3rd world-like areas, keep having all these kids! Why? If you can't feed them why have them and subject them to such awful poverty?

[anarky4321]

there's only one cure for stupidity

[SonnyA89]

@TheFutureLooksGrimm More kids = more workers = more money. You honestly didn't think of this? -_-

[TheMuziekmann]

@TheFutureLooksGrimm they see children as financial investments, so that when they are old, the children will look after them and not live the last days on the street.

[TheFutureLooksGrimm]

@biblefarce yeah & I think it's also a problem similar to how the US has people who have kids just to have someone to love them, or to keep a person in a relationship

[TheBroccolipop]

Like this if you are watching this video for your blog post

[biblefarce]

@TheFutureLooksGrimm I hope you got your answer. The issue is men dont use protection and women dare not say no. And yes abortions do go on.

[whotaughtyou]

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[dodolord]

its sad, but only means of survival is to have more children so that by the time your old, you have a huge family to look after you, back in Pakistan, the grandparents never retire, they are still working, and literally retire when their bodies can no longer allow them to work, their only remaining solace is their big family of children and grandchildren who tend to them :)

in my case my old man always drilled it in me son knaw the calue of money and hard work you dont knaw how lucky you are boy

[dodolord]

@BawJaws232 well my friend, quite simply so that these children can help earn money and help out when the folks get old, I knaw this only because I am a Pakistani, albeit I was born and brought up in England, my grandparents were poor back home and they were quite old and frail from a life time of labouring on farms and such, but had many children who from a young age worked on the farm, went to school and did odd jobs, to help out the aged gramps luckily my old man was hard working