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"They promised me a job and took me to Rawalpindi. They drugged me, made me unconscious for days and cut out my kidney..."
A POOR villager from the Cholistan Desert in eastern Pakistan, Mr Amjad Ali, was promised a job and good money in exchange for a kidney.
That was 10 months ago. Now he's got no job, no money, and only one kidney left.
Slumped on a wooden cot in the compound of his spartan two-room house, he feels weak and is in constant discomfort, as a result of losing one kidney.
He tells an all-too-common story of how Pakistani organ traffickers prey on poor, ignorant peasants and workers.
"They promised me a job and took me to Rawalpindi. They drugged me, made me unconscious for days and cut out my kidney," he said, his voice full of bitterness, as his father wept silently beside him, Reuters reported.
In Sargoda, another impoverished corner of Pakistan, Mr Mohammed Iqbal, 50, is forced into a corner.
His landlord has told him to pay up the debts. He was left with stark choices: Sell your children or your kidney.
He chose the latter.
He has already been for pre-operation tests. The sale will net him between US$1,100 and $1,600 (S$1,540 and S$2,240), CNN reported.
Pakistanis like Mr Ali and Mr Iqbal are not the only ones faced with such a predicament. Many more Pakistanis in the impoverished areas of the country have opted to sell their kidneys, just to make ends meet.
http://www.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20100125-194394.html
A POOR villager from the Cholistan Desert in eastern Pakistan, Mr Amjad Ali, was promised a job and good money in exchange for a kidney.
That was 10 months ago. Now he's got no job, no money, and only one kidney left.
Slumped on a wooden cot in the compound of his spartan two-room house, he feels weak and is in constant discomfort, as a result of losing one kidney.
He tells an all-too-common story of how Pakistani organ traffickers prey on poor, ignorant peasants and workers.
"They promised me a job and took me to Rawalpindi. They drugged me, made me unconscious for days and cut out my kidney," he said, his voice full of bitterness, as his father wept silently beside him, Reuters reported.
In Sargoda, another impoverished corner of Pakistan, Mr Mohammed Iqbal, 50, is forced into a corner.
His landlord has told him to pay up the debts. He was left with stark choices: Sell your children or your kidney.
He chose the latter.
He has already been for pre-operation tests. The sale will net him between US$1,100 and $1,600 (S$1,540 and S$2,240), CNN reported.
Pakistanis like Mr Ali and Mr Iqbal are not the only ones faced with such a predicament. Many more Pakistanis in the impoverished areas of the country have opted to sell their kidneys, just to make ends meet.
http://www.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20100125-194394.html
