The illegal sale of organs is one of the most serious and least publicized problems facing security forces globally.
This is especially the case in the countries of Southeast Asia, where crime is growing unchecked as economic hardship worsens.
While there are obviously no official data, it is understood that approximately About 10,000 transplants are performed illegally every year on the planetand that being these, 70 percent present some health complication for the donor due to the conditions in which the interventions are carried out.
Kidney for sale: controversial promotion in exchange for an iPhone
A sample of the seriousness of the situation and the lack of controls comes from VientianeLaos, where a health center launched a controversial promotion to encourage the donation of a kidney in exchange for an iPhone.
Then he dismissed it, but in minutes it had already gone viral in the world’s media.
“Give us your kidney and receive the latest iPhone”, It was the promotion of the clinic that is now being investigated for the illegal sale of organs.
The promotion included a photo of three young donors supposedly recently operated, without a kidney, smiling to have one of the latest versions of iPhone in his hands.
The photo was posted by Dr Nith Beauty Center on Facebookbut later deleted.
Authorities throughout the region repudiated the fact, you can not sell a kidney or any other organ with any kind of promotion.
The Thai Red Crossfor example, posted on his networks that it is totally inappropriate to suggest this kind of exchange of precious goods or money for human organs.
Sophon Mekthon, general director of the organ donation sector of the Red Cross, said that the image was very unethical and that the case should be thoroughly investigated. He also warned about the illegality of the organ trade.
The reaction of the organizations came because it is feared that other private clinics and hospitals will imitate the logic of promoting the health center of Laos.
In Thailand, for example, it is becoming increasingly common for patients to be reported they are intervened by aesthetic surgeries that pay, in part, with the donation of a kidney.
It is estimated that a kidney is sold on the black market for more than 30 thousand dollars.
Organ trafficking in that country is very high. So much so that Thailand is seen as the hub of interventions and transit for dedicated criminal organizations.
The law in that country prohibits donation except between relatives and on an altruistic basis, but the gray of the law makes it very easy to circumvent.
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