Indian tsunami refugees and organlegging

Today's Wired News has a chilling multi-part story on organlegging in India, especially among tsunami refugees for whom selling a kidney is a ticket to wealth.


These days, Aadil openly advertises two packages for transplant patients at steep discounts to the brokered rate: $14,000 for the first transplant, $16,000 for people who need a second organ after the first has failed.

"You do not have to worry about the donor. We shall provide a live donor arranged through a humanitarian organization, which has hundreds," said Abdul Waheed Sheikh, CEO of Aadil Hospital in an e-mail interview with Wired News.

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