Desperate Afghans are forced to sell their kidneys in order to make their ends meet amidst poverty & starvation.
Not only are they jobless but extremely oppressed to a point where they have resorted to selling a part of their organ, which would make some money & run their homes. If this isn’t the worst humanitarian condition then what is?
The practice of selling kidney has become so common & widespread in the western city of Herat that a nearby settlement is bleakly nicknamed “one-kidney village”.
The economic situation of Afghanistan has worsened & the economy has collapsed after UN & other financial institutions cut funding & US froze assets.
One kidney is sold roughly for about $1500 only. “There is no law … to control how the organs can be donated or sold, but the consent of the donor is necessary,” said Mohammad Wakil Matin, a former top surgeon at a hospital in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
“We take written consent and a video recording from them – especially from the donor,” he said, adding hundreds of surgeries have been performed in Herat over the past five years.
“We have never investigated where the patient or donor comes from, or how. It’s not our job.”
People are so vulnerable & powerless that they resort to an option of selling their organ & sometimes when that doesn’t work, they are forced to sell one of their child!
