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Indian doctors on kidney business: Criminal?
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by BelaynehKassaWubie | July 10, 2010 at 03:41 am
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I have heard a story surprising to me. Rich individuals with failure of kidneys in underdeveloped poor countries buy poor individuals for their kidney and take them to India for detaching one of the kidneys from the poor for implantation to them. For the sake of money, the poor are selling their full health. Is it not criminal act by the doctors, the rich individual and even the poor individual? In my view many criminals are involved here. The first are the Indian doctors trading with ones’ life for the benefit of the other and to them and the second is the rich individual buying the poor’s life for money. The third is the poor himself for committing suicide as suicide is a criminal act as selling his kidney implies reducing his/her life. The fourth and fifth are the governments of India and the country of the poor not controlling such criminal activities. Although Indian doctors take the highest rate of dealing with the kidney implantation business, the South African and Thailand doctors are also heard engaged in this hot cake business! Is this really a legitimate business?
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at 05:39 on July 10th, 2010
I lost one kidney due to cancer two years ago. Because the cancer had not spread, removing the kidney was not a problem because the spare kidney took over just fine. That is normal. Many people are born with one kidney. We are all born with one liver.
In my opinion, if people want to share a spare kidney and be paid for it, that is a good thing. I am biased of course.
Also, I believe the sellers should be paid handsomely.
at 09:32 on July 10th, 2010
Poverty does not give the kidney sellers to negotiate well if at all legal. In my belief selling part of a body for the sake of bread is immoral and a double death. This informs us how we live stupid life in this world not fulfilling even the basic physiological need.
If selling kidney for bread is presumed to be legal and has no health problem on the part of the seller, there should be a mediator at least and that mediator should be a government agency capable of negotiating with the buyer enabling the seller benefited for loss of part of his body. Is it not?
at 16:45 on July 10th, 2010
People make decisions about their own bodies. When medical procedures are involved, the entire process must be governed by professional standards and governmental standards. In general, I don't like the idea of poor people selling body parts, as you say, that seems immoral to me also.
Good story.
at 00:10 on July 11th, 2010
That is fine, Jim!!!
at 08:10 on September 4th, 2010
if they would put me to choose between saving a life or death 2 including Ovia answer is, many people die waiting for a kidney or some other organ and die in one way or another due to their economic problems if offered me money for my kidney and with this saved a life I would not hesitate a second. attentively harold outsideman@hotmail.com