Stealing Kidneys From the Poor in India.

[Dawggie]

It's okay though, they were probably smokers.


Britons held in India kidney snatching investigation


Randeep Ramesh in Delhi
Thursday January 31, 2008
Guardian Unlimited

Kidney removal hang in India
Shakel Ahmed, 28, whose kidney was removed, allegedly by the gang, at a Delhi hospital with his parents. Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP


Indian police have confiscated the passports of two Britons who allegedly travelled to the country to buy kidneys in an organ transplant racket, investigators said today.

After raiding a private hospital last week in Gurgaon, an upmarket suburb of Delhi, police found that poor labourers had had their kidneys removed, sometimes against their will, and sold to clients from around the world.

Doctors running the illegal operation charged 1.5m rupees (£18,750) for a kidney transplant while the donor was paid about 40,000 rupees.

More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,2250036,00.html

[sharp_stick]

1. Now we're going to have people blaming

Clinton and Obama for this. I don't know how but it's gonna happen, I can feel it, who's going to be first? People are getting bored with the snub and Rezko or whatever the hell that pricks name is. Kidney stealing, now there's something people will want to read about.

[northzax]

2. see, the lines will be so long under hillarycare

that the rich will be encouraged to go black market. Look at the most socialized part of medicine in the US, the transplant lists. it doesn't matter what hospital you go to, doesn't matter how much you can pay, doesn't matter what your name is, or who your parents are. the system ranks you based on need. imagine if everything was this way?

feel better now? I just blamed Hillary :)

[zbdent]

3. I thought that, under the "socialized medicine" of the Dem party ...

there would be a 3 year waiting period for getting your kidney removed ...

[northzax]

4. and three more years

before they put it in someone else.