Filipino kidneys for Sale? cheapest in world black market?

[erwin_rommel]

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Everybody has his own story. Let's not jump into that conclusion. That's unfair.

most people who do this thing are the desperate ones. and most desperate people are those who have so many children and could harldy feed them. if only they thinking of the future, then they shouldnt have produced children if they dont have a stable source of income or at least minimize their number of offspring. when someone in the family gets sick, then desperate moves like this happens

[godsaint]

SPARE A KIDNEY ?!?

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Filipino kidneys cheapest in world black market, says NGO

By Jocelyn Uy
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 19:29:00 03/31/2008

MANILA, Philippines -- Filipino kidneys are the cheapest priced in the thriving global black market in organ sales, according to a non-profit organization against child trafficking.

In calling for the total ban on kidney trade and the revocation of the new national policy on kidney transplant from living non-related organ donor, the Asia Against Child Trafficking said poor Filipinos who sell their kidneys to foreign clients are actually shortchanged.

The organization, represented by Asia ACT regional coordinator Amihan Abueva, disclosed this during a press conference organized Monday by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DWSD).

Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral also joined the group and executives of the Philippine Society of Nephrology (PSN) Monday in urging the Department of Health (DoH) to revoke the revised national policy on kidney transplantation and craft a new one that will protect Filipinos from illegal organ harvesting syndicates.

"The living non-related donors that donate their kidneys to foreigners and rich Filipinos are the poor, vulnerable and the marginalized ... and we have the mandate to protect them," said Cabral.

Abueva said that in the Philippines, kidney vendors get a measly $1,500 or roughly P125,000 -- a price 20 times cheaper than those in the United States...

full article:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakin...arket-says-NGO

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Kidneys for sale

What do you do when there is no work? When your children are dying, and you cannot afford to pay a doctor? In the Bagong Lupa slum area in the Filipino capital at least 150 men have chosen to sell one of their kidneys.



By John Einar Sandvand
Manila, Philippines

Marlene Maico was only two years old at the time. Then she fell sick. Very sick - with several diseases at the same time. Her life could only be saved if she was treated properly at a hospital.

- But I had no money, says the father, 31-year-old Satur Maico. The family lived in a shanty in Bagong Lupa, a large slum area close to the harbor in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.

Garbage and sewage are floating below the shanties. There is visible damage after a typhon hit a few months earlier, in which many of the families lost their homes. For many people it is a depressing life. There is no work. At least not every day. And when they get something to do, residents say, pay is a meager 3 to 6 dollars.

In this neighborhood a desparate Maico helplessly watched his daughter on the brink of death. Finally he chose what he considered to be his only alternative: He accepted that one of his two kidneys was removed from the body and transplanted into a man who was willing to pay.

- I received 70.000 pesos (1750 USD) for my kidney. That is the smallest amount anyone has been paid in this area. But I was desperate and did not have much to negotiate with, says Satur Maico.

Thus the daughter, who now is six years old, was admitted to hospital. The father could afford the 15.000 pesos fee. And she survived.

full article:
http://www.asiaobserver.com/Phillippines-story1.htm

From the looks ,Murag makaingon gyud ta nga poverty gyud og katapulan ang reason nganong ibaligya nila ang ilang kidneys.Sad to say our body has been abused,a well as filipinos will be abused by foreigners if this kidney for sale will not be monitored by our government.

[Vince Russo]

It not the foreigner who is doing the abusing, it's the person(s) who arranged the deal.. If the donor received 70k, how much did the "arrangers" get paid in the deal? Who allows such a practice without regulations? Your government, that's who...

[LytSlpr]

that's why people caught for graft and corruption should get the death penalty.

money stolen is life stolen.

[r0mm3L]

i wonder whats the effect of our body having only one kidney?

[omad]

erwin_rommel and godsaint:

You guys should change careers from what you're currently doing right now. You'd both serve as great assets for the FBI and Scotland Yard. You both have enormous talents of knowing everything about a person JUST BY LOOOKING AT THEIR PICTURES.

Both institutions pay big moolah for your instincts.

Case in point, just by looking at the picture of these people (below), you already seem to know their background like if they're married or single, how many kids they have, what jobs they're doing if they have any, how lazy they all are, how they end up in the slums, how they ended-up selling their kidneys etc etc.. close friends and relatives of these people might know less about them compared to you just by how you're describing their lives and why they are at that predicament.

Man you're good.

translation: "sweto"

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[yacky2006]

Kita mo atong documentary ni Jessica Soho sa Siargao Island... daghan sad to sila wala nay mga kidney... kalooy ani nila oi....

[erwin_rommel]

erwin_rommel and godsaint:

You guys should change careers from what you're currently doing right now. You'd both serve as great assets for the FBI and Scotland Yard. You both have enormous talents of knowing everything about a person JUST BY LOOOKING AT THEIR PICTURES.

Both institutions pay big moolah for your instincts.

Case in point, just by looking at the picture of these people (below), you already seem to know their background like if they're married or single, how many kids they have, what jobs they're doing if they have any, how lazy they all are, how they end up in the slums, how they ended-up selling their kidneys etc etc.. close friends and relatives of these people might know less about them compared to you just by how you're describing their lives and why they are at that predicament.

Man you're good.

translation: "sweto"

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common sense ra na bro and i hope you got one

[slakker]

nagbebenta ng laman...

[giddyboy]

at least what the govt should do unta is ma-legit nlng ni para ma-protectahan ang mga donor from abuse and from the cheap black market. ug para pud mo-mahal ang kidney para competitive sa world market. wa man tay mahims kon mo-donor gyud cla sa kidney. it's an act of desperation to some.