The dirty business of organ buying

Organ transport to hospital

Organ transport to hospital Source: AAP

A News Corp report has shed light on the dirty business of organ buying. The report says that organs from executed Chinese prisoners are taken without their consent and people in poor countries are selling their kidneys for up to 200 times less than the price charged to transplant patients here in Australia.


Na faaalia i se lipoti a le News Corp le gasolo o tagatanuu Ausetalia i fafo e saili ai totoga mo togafitiga poo transplants.

 

O se tasi o itu o loo faaalia i le lipoti o faiga le amiotonu o loo aveesea ai totoga o isi mo le toe totoina i togafitiga o tagata i Ausetalia nei.

 

O nisi e lata i le toa 100 o loo mana'omia totoga mo transplants, o loo faatauina mai totoga mai pagota i Saina na faasalaina i le oti.

 

E leai se faatagaga mai le pagota poo lona aiga o le toesea o sona totoga matoe faatau.

 

O nisi o tagata matitiva o loo faatau o latou fatu ga'o mo le na o le $afe.

 

Ae na ta'ua i le lipoti o le tau o le totoga ma le totoina poo le faia o le taotoga o le transplant, e oo i le $250 afe. ,

 

Na faaalia e Sue Dunlevy o le News Corp i se t/noaga ma le Sky News, o le tele o taimi, e le o iai se faatagaga, ma o loo f/malosia ona toesea totoga o tagata i atunuu matitiva, mo le faia o transplants i Ausetalia nei..

 

DUNLEVY

 

"That's the problem with the trade. I mean some of them (organ donations) weren't voluntary. Some of them came from executed prisoners in China. We interviewed one Australian who bought an organ from an executed prisoner. Some of them are coming from very poor people who are in debt. And they're getting paid a very small amount of money. A thousand dollars and the brokers gets two hundreds dollars of that. So the person who is selling their kidney is getting eight hundred dollars. I mean that is less than (the cost of) a TV in Australia."

 






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