Monday, May 28, 2012

THE LUCRATIVE BUSINESS OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY




Crimes against humanity in the form of human organ trafficking are committed at an estimated rate of one per hour world-wide.  Patients who afford to pay $100,000-200,000 for kidney are served by international rings of gangsters in China, India, Pakistan Eastern Europe and Israel. 

“Consenting” donors are paid $2,500-5,000 (if that) and are left behind without follow-up medical care.  The difference between the cost of the original kidney and the completed transplant service is pocketed by surgeons, nephrologists and hospital administrators.

The British paper The Guardian has a graphic report (May 27, 2012), of a Chinese migrant worker who was forcefully submitted into the kidney “harvesting” even though he changed his mind.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/27/kidney-trade-illegal-operations-who/print


Note: Like other criminal trades the business of illegal transplant organs will continue to thrive because the international demand is growing.  Prevalence of diabetic kidney disease and kidney failure is growing with increasing incidence of diabetes due to cheap food supply and over-eating in Western countries.   The cheapest sugar and calories-loaded sources are various Cola, sugar sweetened sodas, and alcoholic beverages.

It’s time to start taxing sweetened beverages to reduce their consumption and use the proceeds for medical care.  Much the same as happened with cigarettes smoking.



© 2012 Mandy Lender MD

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