Russian Organ Harvesting Factory

[Jaga]

This cannot be true?

[Nictoshek]

Organ Trafficking in Eastern Europe

COLUMN By ANA LITA, Ph.D.
For HumanistNetworkNews.org

Organ trafficking has become an international trade. It involves countries from all over the world, including rich industrialized countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom and poorer developing countries such as Turkey and Romania.

In Turkey, kidneys sell for $2,700 a piece. As low as this may sound, this is actually a high price for the purchase of a kidney, according to the October 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. While Indians and Iraqis sell their kidneys for only about $1,000 a piece, wealthy clients pay up to $150,000 per kidney.

Antenna 3 of Spain filmed a documentary in which a priest, pretending to be a middleman for a doctor, asked undercover reporters in Mexico to pay almost one million dollars for a single kidney. This documentary was aired five years ago by CBS news.

In February 2002, on the popular auctioning website eBay, there was an auction for a human kidney. The highest bid on this kidney was $100,000 before eBay shut down the auction. In September 1999, another auction for a kidney drew $5.7 million. However, most believe that this was probably just a prank.

Organ harvesting operations flourish all over Europe. In Eastern Europe, countries that contribute to organ trafficking include Turkey, Moldova, Russia, the Ukraine, Romania, Bosnia, Albania and many more.

These organ harvesting operations include the removal of kidneys, lungs, pieces of the liver, corneas, bones, tendons, heart valves, skin and any other salable human part. These organs are kept in cold storage, such as ice boxes, after removal until they are ready to be air lifted to illegal distribution centers in rich industrialized countries such as the U.S., Germany, the U.K., Israel, and South Africa.

In Moldova, citizens make such a small amount of money from their jobs that they look at selling their organs as a better future for their families. In November 2002, the Washington Post reported that in a single village in Moldova, 14 out of 40 men were reduced into selling body parts for money. Four years ago, Moldova cut off the thriving baby adoption trade because they were afraid that the babies that were being put out for adoption were being dissected and having their organs harvested. In Israel, a similar situation is occurring. Romanians are investigating allegations that Israeli�s are doing the same thing to Romanian babies that were put up for adoption by parents that just did not have the money to support their babies.

In August 2002, three Ukrainian doctors were charged with the trafficking the organs of victims of road accidents. The doctors charged up to $19,000 per organ after having helicopters air lifting the organs to hospitals.

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, sellers go as far as placing ads on newspapers to advertise that they are selling their organs, says the West Australian Daily in January 2002. Prices reach up to $68000, and compared to an average monthly salary of less than $200, this is an unimaginable fortune.

Israelis, attempting to avoid scrutiny, travel to Eastern Europe accompanied by Israeli medical doctors. They look for a potential seller, and when they find one, the medical doctor performs the transplants in clinics that are set up all over, just for transplants. This process is known as �transplant tourism.�

There are reports of organ thefts and abductions, mainly of small children, in Poland and Russia. According to scholars, in Poland and Russia there have been kidnappings of kids and harvesting of their their organs since at least as early as 1991. The buyers are suspected to be Arabs of wealthy means.

Five years ago, international news agencies described a Russian grandmother in Ryazan trying to sell her grandchild to a mediator. The grandchild�s uncle assisted in the plan and he was supposed to collect $70, 000, which is a huge fortune in Russian terms. The boy was to be smuggled to the West, and there, dismembered for his organs. When confronted by the European Union on this issue, Russian responded that it lacks the resources required to monitor organ donations.

The Italian magazine, "Happy Web," reports that organ trading has gone as far as taking the sales of organs to the internet. A simple search on Google or any search engine would result in thousands of websites that sell various body parts, mostly kidneys, for up to $125, 000. The sellers are mostly Russian, Moldovan, Ukrainian and Romanian.

Scheper-Hughes, someone who is completely against the legalization of any form of trades in organ says that, �in general, the movement and flow of living donor organs, mostly kidneys, is from South to North, from poor to rich, from black and brown to white, and from female to male bodies.�

The organ trafficking market is the result of the international ban on organ sales and live donor organs. However, whenever there is a demand, there is a market. As waiting lists become longer and longer in rich countries for organs, and poverty increases in poorer countries, an international market is created.

When living in a country in excruciating poverty, selling ones organs for money is an irresistible temptation, and the better quality of organs harvested from live people make it a sweeter deal for wealthy and potential buyers.

[karl]

Nictoe

Good for you for bringing this to light with your presentation! For as the presentation is about, this is a dirty business as written.

In the 1st, I was rather dubious with the factory situation with as shown, their inventories of dead bodies stacked about. For that is not actual truth. For once the heart has ceased to beat, with lack of oxygenated circulation of blood, the tissue begins to deteriorate very rapidly and decay sets in. In short time, with the supply of dead bodies laying about, those fellows will be fighting for their breath in the stink of death.

It is most amazing, is it not, the advances of medicine to enable physicians with the tools to repair our bodies from the effects of aging/accident/acts of violence and what ever??

And as so, the needs of the living, for reason to take from the dead and dying, for that to remain alive.

When their lays the need with-out the supply to draw upon, then their will be the few that will insure of a supple {body parts} to fill that need,,,,at a price.

But, whilst on the other side of the Roman coin. As a person, if in eminent face of dying, and a replacement body part was placed into my body for repair. I would not wish to know the source. For to remain alive to see another sunrise would be my sincere desire. Perhaps at a later time, I would spend a very short moment of thought and quickly dismiss it.

For no matter our situation and/or life circumstance. Life is not more precious until it becomes eminent, that we will loose it to death. For this is reality.

Karl

[RabiaMuweis]

Organ donation is a good thing. As for dealing with the bodies of human beings as if they were scrap something shameful and brutal