Man offers kidney, cornea to pay off debts
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A Croatian man has offered to sell his kidney and cornea in an attempt to pay back loans worth 35,000 euros, a local newspaper reported Thursday.
"I know that selling organs is illegal, and I know that by losing a cornea I will go blind in one eye, but I am ready for it," 40-year-old Nenad Vrbanic told daily newspaper Vjesnik.
"I see no other way out. By selling these organs I will help myself and someone else," said Vrbanic, who has sold his car and house in a Zagreb suburb. He now lives with his mother in a rural area in the north.
Croatia has had a steady credit boom for private consumers in the last few years and observers have recently pointed to a growing number of citizens who declare insolvency.
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