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y –challenged strata of the society. Some interesting facts that emerged from this survey are featured below:

? The majority of the donors admitted that no altruism was involved in their kidney donation

? Average money received by a donor was equal to 1070 US dollars

? 96% of these donors donated their kidneys to pay off debts

? In many parts of India, kidneys are used as collateral to borrow money

? Besides debts, most of the money went to procure food and clothing

? Average family income plummeted by 1/3, after the nephrectomy

? Number of donors and their family members who lived below the poverty line increased

? Six years after the surgery, during the survey, these donors continued to live in poverty

? 86% of donors complained of deterioration in their health conditions

? 79% pointed out that they would not recommend that others donate their kidney

This study has indeed busted the myth that the economy of the donors received a boost after they were compensated financially for the kidney donation. The survey also points to the fact that the members of the authorization council failed miserably in their role of being the Government’s ‘watch dog’.

Similar problems haunt many developing countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and South America with the organ trade flourishing in violation of national laws, cultural and religious sanctions.

A survey conducted by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, an anthropologist, revealed that kidney vending has developed along the lines of class, gender and race. She refers to the global trade in human organs as the “new cannibalism."

Lawrence Cohen, a medical anthropologist from Berkeley, who worked in the south and western regions of India for his book on kidney trade found that, periodic kidney scandals involving doctors were mostly stories co
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