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by RealGeek 5364 days ago
Organ transplant is a for-profit industry in India. Blood, bone marrow, kidneys; everything is bought and sold. There are no waiting lists, doctors sell it to the highest bidder.

Indian doctors engage in organs trading, nice doctors would hook you up with a poor and offer to buy his organs. Evil ones will abduct poor laborers, take out both of their kidneys & other organs, and dump their dead body.

There have been thousands of criminal instances of such horrific incidents and millions of organs traded illegally.

You can read some stories at following links:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01...

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1709006,00.htm...

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-02-02/india...

http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/16890/

1 comments

> There are no waiting lists, doctors sell it to the highest bidder.

I think that translates into: the waiting list is invisible, it contains everybody that is poor.

This is reminiscent of the quote by Douglas Adams: "no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.".