The illegal trade in kidneys has risen to such a level that an estimated 10,000 black market operations involving purchased human organs now take place annually, or more than one an hour.
"There is a growing need for transplants and big profits to be made. It's ever growing, it's a constant struggle. The stakes are so big, the profit that can be made so huge, that the temptation is out there." Dr. Luc Noel, of WHO and runs unit monitoring trends in legitimate and underground donations and transplants of human organs.
Humanity itself is being undermined by the vast profits involved and the division between poor people who undergo "amputation" for cash and the wealthy sick who sustain the body parts trade.
Jim Feehally, a professor of renal medicine at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS trust, said: "We know of countries in Asia, and also in eastern Europe, which provide a market so that people who need a kidney can go there and buy one. ou are exploiting a donor if they are very poor and you are giving them a very small amount of money and no doctor is caring for them afterwards, which is what happens. The people who gain are the rich transplant patients who can afford to buy a kidney, the doctors and hospital administrators, and the middlemen, the traffickers. It's absolutely wrong, morally wrong."
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"There is a growing need for transplants and big profits to be made. It's ever growing, it's a constant struggle. The stakes are so big, the profit that can be made so huge, that the temptation is out there." Dr. Luc Noel, of WHO and runs unit monitoring trends in legitimate and underground donations and transplants of human organs.
Humanity itself is being undermined by the vast profits involved and the division between poor people who undergo "amputation" for cash and the wealthy sick who sustain the body parts trade.
Jim Feehally, a professor of renal medicine at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS trust, said: "We know of countries in Asia, and also in eastern Europe, which provide a market so that people who need a kidney can go there and buy one. ou are exploiting a donor if they are very poor and you are giving them a very small amount of money and no doctor is caring for them afterwards, which is what happens. The people who gain are the rich transplant patients who can afford to buy a kidney, the doctors and hospital administrators, and the middlemen, the traffickers. It's absolutely wrong, morally wrong."
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