Kidney price of human in india

MANILA: Reyna comes back home looking exhausted. It has been a long day at the Philippine General Hospital. She spent most of it with two potential donors, whose kidneys could save someone’s life. They could net her some extra income, too. Reyna is one of the ‘kidney hunters’ who roam Manila’s most impoverished communities in search of living donors. What she does is illegal. Under Philippine law, her action constitutes human trafficking for organs, a grave crime that could land her 20 years in prison and a hefty fine. Still, the grinding poverty that defines her life is as challenging as the risk of spending decades behind bars. Reyna works on a commission basis. She sources potential donors and recruits them for medical exams when an order is placed. Each time she manages to bring someone for a health check, she gets 500 Philippine pesos, or about US$10. Candidates must pass a series of health tests and x-rays before any transplant can take place. The process could take a year to complete, giving her ample money making opportunities. The reward is enticing enough to make Reyna cross into the Philippines’ illegal organ trade that has thrived underground and preyed on poor and vulnerable victims for decades. “The government can’t really stop it. They can’t stop people who are in need, people who are just trying to make ends meet,” said Reyna inside her ramshackle home - a tiny room near a dirty gutter in one of Manila’s slums. The latest order came from a retired civil ser...

Organ donor Hu Jie, 25, a Chinese migrant worker, who changed his mind about selling his kidney but could not escape surgery once he had signed for it. Photograph: Nicola Davison 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, World Health Organisation experts have revealed. Evidence collected by a worldwide network of doctors shows that traffickers are defying laws intended to curtail their activities and are cashing in on rising international demand for replacement kidneys driven by the increase in diabetes and other diseases. Patients, many of whom will go to China, India or The vast sums to be made by both traffickers and surgeons have been underlined by the arrest by Israeli police last week of 10 people, including a doctor, suspected of belonging to an international organ trafficking ring and of committing extortion, tax fraud and grievous bodily harm. Other illicit organ trafficking rings have been uncovered in The Guardian contacted an organ broker in The resurgence of trafficking has prompted the WHO to suggest that 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. "The illegal trade worldwide was falling back in about 2006-07 – there was a decrease in 'transplant tourism'," said Luc Noel...

The design of the human body is truly one of the most wonderful creations ever made. Managed by a vast network of nervous system consisting of more than three trillion nerve cells, the human body is held up by 200-300 bones that make the skeletal frame. The construction is augmented by the presence of 639 muscles, 62,000 miles of blood vessels and approximately 7,500 named parts of the body. Out of the 7,500 body parts, nine in particular are organs that are essential to the functioning and continued survival of the body. In recent decades, medical science has made tremendous technological leaps that make it possible to offer transplants to patients with defective organs. The defects are most often caused by diseases, accidents or genetic defects. Cases that previously signaled death sentences for patients can now be treated with transplants; even eyesight could be restored through cornea transplants. However, since replacement organs are harvested from donor bodies, there is a continuous shortage of organs on offer, leading to long waiting periods for patients. In the United States alone, about 120,000 patients are on the waiting list. However, in 2012, there were only 14,013 organ donors and 28,052 subsequent transplant procedures. The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that in 2010, a total of 106,879 organs were transplanted to patients globally – fulfilling only about 10% of the requirement. The problem is further exacerbated by the black market sales of organs,...

Reporting from Mumbai, India— Seven years after leaving his village in northern India to find work in the bursting metropolis of Mumbai, Sundar Singh Jatav was struggling in a menial job at a video game shop. The $2.50 daily wage was hardly enough with his family back home deep in debt. So in late 2015, when his boss introduced him to a man who promised to solve his financial problems, Jatav listened — and was shocked. “He suggested I sell my kidney,” said Jatav, now 23. What happened over the next several months would upend his life — and reveal a high-level kidney trafficking network inside one of the most reputed hospitals in India’s financial capital. At least 14 people, including four doctors and the hospital’s chief executive, have been arrested since July when police, acting on information provided by Jatav, stopped a kidney transplant involving a 48-year-old patient who had presented forged documents purporting that the organ donor was his wife. The ring is part of what one news outlet dubbed the “Great Indian Kidney Racket.” Because the country harvests relatively few organs from people who die in accidents — the most common source of kidneys in the U.S. — the vast majority of transplants here involve living donors who give up one of their two kidneys. (Parth M.N. / For The Times ) For patients who don’t have a relative with a suitable kidney or don’t want to put a loved one through the small risk that donation entails, there is another option: a shadowy marketpla...