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Now we all know the UL about a guy who passes out at a party and come round in a bath full of ice to find that he is missing a kidney. Well I had always assumed that it was a hoax but then I thought again.
I'm sure you noticed in the news recently that a doctor was struck off because he had been found trafficing human organs from live donors. Well as part of this story they were talking to the man who was investigating this and other problems of live donor transfers. He said that although most of the donors we very poor people in India etc. who knew what they were doing and were willing to take the risk for £1000 or so; some of them where not aware that this was what was going to happen. He said that he had come across some cases of people who had been smuggled into the UK and the States on false papers, thinking that when they got there they could just nic off and find their family. But no, when they got there they where told by the smugglers that the cost of their passage was a kidney. Being in a strange country and on false papers they were to afraid argue and had the organ forceably removed!
I'm sure you noticed in the news recently that a doctor was struck off because he had been found trafficing human organs from live donors. Well as part of this story they were talking to the man who was investigating this and other problems of live donor transfers. He said that although most of the donors we very poor people in India etc. who knew what they were doing and were willing to take the risk for £1000 or so; some of them where not aware that this was what was going to happen. He said that he had come across some cases of people who had been smuggled into the UK and the States on false papers, thinking that when they got there they could just nic off and find their family. But no, when they got there they where told by the smugglers that the cost of their passage was a kidney. Being in a strange country and on false papers they were to afraid argue and had the organ forceably removed!