Black Market In Organ Donations Flourishes In China

Beijing - In China, where a growing demand for organ transplants coupled with a dramatic shortage of donors has fuelled a rampant black market trade, selling your organs for cash is a mouse click away.

An Internet search reveals a website offering kidneys for sale and the contact information of those able to procure them. A young woman, posing for IPS as a migrant worker from Hebei province, calls a man who has advertised on the website, identified as Mr. He.

"I need money," she says over the phone. "Do you want a woman’s kidney?"

Mr. He asks her age. Twenty-five, she replies.

"Of course we want your kidney."

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