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The Cruellest Cut - Pakistan's Kidney Mafia

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More and more Westerners - including Australians, it appears - are travelling abroad to get transplants, particularly kidneys - currently the world's most sought-after organ.

This boom in so-called transplant tourism has caused the World Health Organisation to recently express alarm at the sale of kidneys by poor donors to cater for this surging demand.

Elizabeth Tadic has been in Pakistan to investigate this pernicious trade.

On air: 13th June 2007

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