Despite a 2007 ban, the sale of human organs remains a problem in China. Last May, a trial of nine people accused of trafficking kidneys in the eastern city of Hangzhou revealed that donors in their 20s would be paid as little as 15,000 renminbi, or $2,450 for a healthy organ, which could then be sold to patients for 200,000 renminbi, more than $32,000. A 2012 case of a student in the central province of Hunan who sold a kidney for 22,000 renminbi, about $3,000, to buy an iPad perversely increased interest among young people in selling their own kidneys, People’s Court Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Supreme People’s Court, reported in May.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:47:45 +0000
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