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Children selling kidneys to feed family
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by Ahmar Mustikhan | June 23, 2009 at 03:27 am
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A well-known journalist from Baluchistan, Malik Siraj Akbar, has reported Baluch children who are escaping Pakistan military operation in their occupied homeland are forced to sell their kidneys because of poverty.
The West in general, and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in particular, has been accused of discriminating against the Baluch internally displaced persons.
There are no laws in Pakistan against the selling of body organs.
Transplant tourism has been flourishing in Pakistan for almost a decade now.
Pakistan’s Senate Standing Body on Health was told that foreigners with kidney ailments are lured by "transplant tourism" come to Pakistan to buy kidneys from the poor for about C$2,500 with the help of local agents working in private hospitals in Rawalpindi.
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at 09:12 on June 23rd, 2009
Omg. how barbaric. awful a horror story.
at 11:34 on June 23rd, 2009
That is terrible