‘Kidney Bazaar’ is an apposite name that Pakistan can be named as. This is not a joke but a harsh reality that has floated out on the surface of Pakistani society after Pakistani media brought this fact to the light. It would also not be grandiloquent saying that if you are seeking for a kidney donor than visiting Pakistan can the right choice because here to find out kidney donor is as easy as to seek out a donor for alms. However, the people of Pakistan do it merely for money because poverty has pushed these people to such a stage where they are forced to sell their kidneys.
In developed countries like US, donating kidney merely for money is illegal but in developing countries like Pakistan, kidney trade is in full swing. Actually, the social structure of Pakistan is so vulnerable, especially for poor people that they often find themselves under the talon of bad debt, which forces them to turn to this option. In Pakistan, kidney trade moves on like the trade of deaf and dumb cattle and after a kidney donor is paid for his kidney, he is left without medications and regular check-ups, which sometimes proves fatal. Ali of Sindh Institute says that a kidney donor requires to be checked constantly to keep sugar and blood pressure under control so that remaining kidney may be protected. However, in the name of medical check-ups of kidney donors nothing is being done in Pakistan. Means, lives of these poor people are being used just as a substitute to save lives of the wealthy people.
Nassem Kausar, who is in here 30s, reveals that she has donated one of her kidneys. In the same way did her sister, her six brothers, five sisters-in-law, and here two nephews. Polishing out the radical reason behind this she says sadly:
We do this because of our poverty.
I think this brief but radical statement brings out the kernel of the problem because only a kidney donor (Nassem Kausar) can well express the grief, which forced her to cut apart one of her important body parts.
It is pity that whereas in neighboring china a kidney recipient normally pays about $70,000 for a kidney but in Pakistan $6,000 to $12,000 can suffice the purpose. In fact, it is a slap on the faces of people living in poverty in Pakistan.
No doubt, critics have come out to protest the illegal kidney trade in Pakistan, forcing Pakistani government to denounce kidney trade as illegal. Government has also announced that it is on its way to ban it. But don’t you think government is still not catching sight of the radical cause of problem, which is deep-rooted poverty.
I can dare say, if Pakistani government really wants to do something to stop buying and selling of kidney in Pakistan then it will first have to strike at the root cause of the problem, which is one and only poverty; just poverty.
Via: ap