This article is from the public number:Book List (ID: BookSelection) author: cool oil, editors: Jenny, from the title figure: vision China
A few days ago, the British “Death Truck Case” caught the attention of many people.
Because 39 bodiesThe body was found in a refrigerated truck, so some people thought that this might be the dark tissue that sold human organs.
In fact, if you have a little understanding of organ trading, you will know how unreasonable this guess is.
Maybe it is because most people are in the light, and they are born with fear and strangeness in the corner that the sun can’t reach.
The book “Human Trading” that you want to share with you today is a book about organ trafficking.
The special thing about this book is that the cruelty and misfortunes of it are not half-divided and singular, but the author took ten years to visit the darkest global human market and personally recorded it.
In the market, human organs are bought and sold like cabbage. Behind every transaction, there is a bloody cruel truth.
1 Kidney Village
In 2004, a tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed more than 200,000 people.
After the disaster, many people have dedicated their love to the affected areas. We all think that with the help of all over the world, the victims will soon be able to rebuild their homes and find the stability and tranquility of the past.
But this is not the case.
After the bureaucrats’ deductions, the international community’s support materials are running low. In the past two years after the disaster, the victims in Tamil Nadu, India, are still poor.
Some people saw business opportunities from this disaster. They were organ hackers who walked around the hospital and the black market.
The hackers are aiming at these tough refugees who live – they have at least one kidney for sale, though they don’t have the money.
Here, almost every adult woman has a curved, convex scar on her waist.
However, their lives are not made easier by selling kidneys.
The daughter of Ronnie’s daughter married to her husband’s family. Because she was unable to buy a dowry at home, she was beaten by her husband every day, and she committed suicide by drinking pesticides.
In order to raise the hospitalization fee for her daughter, Ronnie introduced a kidney agent through a woman who sold her kidney in the village. The other party promised to pay her $3,500, prepaid $900 before surgery, and the rest was settled after surgery.
Before the transplant operation, she provided her own blood and urine to match. After successful matching, some people will send her to a general hospital in Chennai to receive an ethical review of the Organ Transplant Authorization Committee to ensure the organs. Transplant surgery is legal and there is no money transaction.
Of course, organ hackers will use 2,000 rupees (less than $30) to pay bribes, so-called censorship is just a mutual understanding The cutscenes.
After the instrument came down, Ronnie’s kidneys were quickly transplanted to the buyer in the form of “voluntary donation”. She had never seen the buyer and was said to be a rich woman. .
Three days after the operation, Ronnie’s wounds continued to seep out of the fluid, and the hospital gave her a discharge and let her go home to recover. After a week, she went back to check, and all the doctors pretended not to know her.
The hacker didn’t know where he was, and the money promised to be settled after the operation was of course not fulfilled.
Ronnie knew she was cheated, and she was also deceived by her hacker, 33-year-old Marija. Marika only got $750, and even the medical expenses after surgery were self-sufficient.
She complained to the police, but the police said that in this case, she would be arrested together because she was the seller.
What’s worse, it didn’t take long for Mary Jia’s son to get hepatitis B and cause kidney failure. She couldn’t even donate to the kidneys. She could only watch her son die.
In India, human organs are the bottom of society for the upper echelons of society, and there is absolutely no reverse.
The victims of these eagerly selling kidneys are not seeing money, but they are really desperate.
They want only a fishing net and a tricycle so that the fish can be transported to the market and sold.
2 New forms of cannibalism
In the tsunami refugee area, selling kidneys is an open secret.
The asking price for these surgeries is $14,000, but those who sell kidneys can only get a small portion of them.
After the hacker draws part of the commission, the rest will be taken by the big trader Shankar. Every time he sells a kidney, he can get a piece of it.
And this dirty and sinful industrial chain has been in operation for so many years because of the escorting of unscrupulous doctors and corrupt police, and the attractiveness of the “privacy protection system for recipients and donors”. Profit model.
It is this system that allows hackers to take a lion’s mouth at the buyer after they have sucked the blood of the kidney-solder.
The hospital and the doctors claim that the donor and the recipient will meet and cause serious psychological harm to both parties.
But the truth is not always the case. The anthropologist Leslie Sharp has discussed the American system of donation in the book “Singular Harvest”.
She writes that the anonymous system is a medical ethic that has emerged in recent years. In the past, doctors advocated introducing donors to recipient families so that both parties could share cases and improve the success rate of surgery. Two people will also have a “biological sentiment” because of the continuation of life.
And now, the need for organ transplants,Almost a new form of cannibalism.
Some unscrupulous doctors are painting beautiful pies for patients who are going to die–Don’t be afraid, as long as you have money, there must be a “poor person” in a corner of the world. Help “you live.
There is no doubt that the list waiting to be transplanted will be longer and longer, as more and more people are hoping that organ transplants will bring them new life.
But in reality, life after a successful transplant is not a rebirth, and lost health may only recover a small part after surgery.
After the operation, the patient not only needs to take a lot of anti-rejection drugs, but also may face the situation of organ re-depletion. At that time, they can only find a way to buy an organ.
The invention of organ transplantation and anti-rejection drugs, while creating a “medical miracle”, also opened Pandora’s magic box, which led to the cruel world of organ trading.
3 Egg Purchasing Paradise
At the junction of Europe and Asia, there is a small island country called Cyprus.
In a small country, there are hundreds of fertility clinics. Thousands of eggs are taken out every year and implanted in the womb of female clients from afar.
Birth tourism is a special industry here.
In Cyprus, one out of every 50 women who qualify for donation will sell their eggs.
In the United States, this number is 14,000. Loose law is a hotbed of fertility industry here.
Under EU law, EU countries (eg Cyprus) must “do their best” to ensure that donations from human oocytes are voluntary and unpaid, but Allow compensation to pay for salary losses and transportation expenses.
With the definition of “compensation and economic benefits”, “suppliers” and customers can easily circumvent legal restrictions.
For this waste-like regulation, bioethicist McGee once ridiculed that the adoption of cats is twice as difficult as purchasing eggs.
The majority of people who sell eggs here are poor female immigrants from Eastern European countries. In Cyprus, there are 30,000 Russians, Ukrainians, Moldovans and Romanians, and a quarter of them are selling eggs.
Because of fair skin and high levels of education, their eggs can easily be marketed to Western European customers.
Advertising for egg donors and selling eggs is also available everywhere.
Click on the website of the fertility clinic to see the information of a large number of donors, like the goods on the supermarket shelves, indicating nationality, age, height, blood type, education, hair color…
For example, number 17P, Ukrainian, height 175, weight 59, blood type B+, hair color maroon, brown eyes, education degree university graduate, professional artist, age 23, arrival date February 2 to 10, expectedTake the date from February 5th to 7th.
These information seems to give a sense of security to those who come to buy eggs, but it is not.
In order to extract more profits, these clinics often use excessive stimulation to let the donors discharge more eggs and then sell the eggs to multiple customers.
As a result, the profit per egg cycle doubles.
But excessive stimulation will not only cause great damage to the health of the donor, but the surge in the number of eggs will also cause a decline in quality, and the success rate of fertilization will be greatly reduced.
The egg donation is not a fatal, but it is a long and painful process, and it is accompanied by the risk of surgery.
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome displayed under ultrasound
The donor will need at least two weeks of hormonal stimulation before surgery can be taken to remove the egg. The complications caused by the injection of hormones are not only painful but also life-threatening.
Maybe some people think that so many girls are eager to take the risk of selling their eggs, and the rewards must be high.
No, the price of selling an egg is $1,000 to $2,000, only enough for them to live for a few months. Many women sell eggs, either to support their families or to earn a return to the country.
Like those in the Indian refugee settlements, the reason why they sell their eggs is not to satisfy material desires, nor to make big money, but because they are too poor and too poor to live. .
4 Underground Blood Farm
In the Indian border town of Gorapur, a weak man called for help from a group of farmers resting on the edge of the field.
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