KIDNEY TRADING

Dear all,

Donating something for someone’s betterment is a noble cause and a significant action. Only kind-hearted people can do the same to prove themselves to be true human beings. Donations are not restricted to cash or movable property, but people sacrifice their body organs for other treatments. There are many examples of people who declare a will to donate their body parts like eyes, kidneys, heart, liver, etc to various needy patients. Due to the latest research and technology, it has become very easy for surgeons to transplant the said organs to donees.

When we talk about kidney donation, we observe that most of the time, it is preferred that the donor should be a close relative. A close relative may avoid many complications in a kidney transplant. On the other hand, if the donor is an outsider, then it takes a lot of checks before the procedure. Blood and tissue match is a common term, and there are many more precautions. But both ways are popular for this procedure. 

Kidney donation, like other donations, is also a noble cause to save someone’s life. According to WHO, 91 countries are carrying out kidney transplants; people are commendable who donate it to others. No need to mention that we humans have mostly two kidneys, and a healthy person can survive with one kidney.9th March is globally declared as World Kidney Day in order to keep people aware of its importance, care, and donation.

But everything has pros and cons; we observe many greedy and insincere people who prefer to collect money under the shadow of this donation. Actually, they are traders, and trading human organs is illegal. They attract poor and needy people with little incentives and provoke them to sell their kidneys at a low price. They pretend that they are doing it all for a noble cause but make a huge profit by selling it at a high cost. There are many needy ones who are ready to offer any amount to save their lives.

In South Asia, one can easily find a donor for a kidney at an affordable price. There are many people who are living a miserable life and are ready to sell themselves at the price of some necessities. Due to unstable economic situations and unjustified division of resources, such a lower middle class is increasing day by day. There is nobody to look after them for their needs, and they are often engaged in illegal activities. We have very clear examples of many villages where people opt for this and sell their kidneys; now there is no one left with two kidneys except newborns.  This activity is illegal but still running very successfully. Well, those who are off have no hurdle to fulfill their requirements through this system. There are many authentic and inauthentic doctors available who perform this procedure in private places.

There is another scenario where we observe an increasing rate of kidnapping. Criminals are kidnapping people and selling their body parts to various areas of the world. In the past few months, newspapers have been full of such incidents where bodies were found without organs in many countries of South Asia. The main cause is selling kidneys, as it is a profitable business for them. They have no concern that the person they are selling in parts is a loved one to someone. These insensible people are not only illiterate persons from the crime world, but there are many respectable doctors also associated with this dirty and inhuman job. 

According to the Human Organs Transplantation Act of 1994, the trade of human organs is banned. Officials have constituted and implemented many rules and regulations to stop this nasty work and have held many violators behind bars. This is not enough; people handling this syndicate should be accused, not the puppets.

Best regards.