Your Organ is for sale! Highest Bidder Wins!
By candyfairy21
@candyfairy21 (2039)
Philippines
February 26, 2010 3:11am CST
hi mylotters,
Asia and other third world countries are now the hot spot for organ trade or organ trafficking. This is a very sad occurrence that we must all unite in fighting. The victims are mostly children and healthy adults who are impoverish since they are the most vulnerable in the society.
There are more incidences of missing children all over Asia, Africa and other third world regions and they are believed to be connected with the ongoing international trade of human organs. One report said that there were bodies found whose organs were removed from its bodies. This is pretty scary and we must all learn how to fight this together.
Are you in favor of making organ trade legal? What can we do to stop this?
3 responses
@mareca11 (212)
• Philippines
26 Feb 10
Here in my country, organ trade is rampant. I can't say that it's not legal here in our country because there are no rules banning this kind of trading. I feel that most of my country men subject to this kind of trade because they have no money to feed themselves. A healthy kidney can cost up to 100.000 pesos. Well, that's if the person you are trading with is nice. If not, you can just trade your kidney for 10,000 pesos. And most poor people take advantage of that. Just so that they have some money. In the end, these people who gave their body parts away become weak and die. Because healthcare is also an issue here in the Philippines, most organ traders do not check for their health status and end up dying.
I feel that we won't be able to stop this trade. I think that only if the lives of the poor are made better, they would probably stop donating their body parts and claim it for their own.
@candyfairy21 (2039)
• Philippines
27 Feb 10
I do agree with you there, they die because they have no medical follow up after the organ removal is done. Its shocking that poor people would resort to this kind of trade for what a month's food? Poor people don't benefit from it much but the traders. I believe it is banned in the Philippines already. A couple of months ago a Filipino national and an Arab man were being investigated and authorities believe they were having an organ trade. The woman can speak no english and also the guy. They posed as man and wife but it was questionable because they can barely communicate to each other. On further investigation it revealed that the man had a kidney problem. The man was deported back to Bahrain and the woman was not allowed out of the country. This only proves that these people are getting more crafty.
@sether7 (183)
• Philippines
27 Feb 10
I just seen a news recently about this and its really scary. They are selling an important part of their body just to have the money that they can spend in their daily needs. Its very rampant in some place here and hope the government can take some actions to stop this and give livelihood projects for those in need. I'm in favor in donating organs to those in need especially for those who are dying and want to donate a part of their body since they're not gonna be needing it in their after life. I'm against selling an organ just for the sake of money because I know there are still ways to earn money for our daily needs.
@choybel (5042)
• Philippines
26 Feb 10
I am aware of this issue and I strongly believe that this matter should be taken into serious actions. It not only prompts many more kidnapping incidents but more alarmingly, murders. I hope that our leaders would put this into their priority and the leaders to be too. I am just wondering where civilization is heading to now adays.
