Chennai's Kidney Racket Again
Indian Health Front
Yesterday's evening Tamil papers [Malai Malar and Tamil Murasu] from Chennai [13-1-2007] carried lead stories about kidney racket in Chennai.[Alas ,once more]
Tsunami nagar is a recently created hamlet near Ennore, for those who lost all their belongings 2 years ago to tsunami.About 100 persons ,all ladies between 18 to 30 years of age ,have sold their kidneys due to utter penury in the last 2 years.While the brokers gave them around 50,000 for a kidney, they sold it to willing recipients ,to God knows how much.
One lady says that because of the relocation her husband is not able to go to sea [he had to spend about 30 rupees a day to reach his place to take the boat to sea ]and the earnings are meagre from fishing and hence she sold her kidney.The money vanished in no time and they are back to their penury. Since she has had a major surgery she is not able to do hard work either and she is blank about her future.
Another lady,just 18 years of age with 2 children and a drunkard husband sold her kidney.The doctors have advised against sex for 6 months.Her husband took the money ,threw her out and she is in her mother's house now with her 2 children with shattered physique and home.
Another one went along with her broker to sell the kidney. Since she had very high BP she was unfit to sell the kidney. But the resourceful broker took her hair and gave her 500 rupees.Many have sold their kidneys to get their daughters married. One lady got her daughter married off by selling her kidney. The husband has deserted the wife and the mother who is already weak after the surgery-has to support the daughter too.
Please note that the donors are all women. None was a male.[I bet all the recipients would be males] and all of them in their prime of life. The organs were harvested from hospitals in Chennai and Madurai but the officials are tightlipped about the hospitals.As usual a RDO enquiry has been ordered.
Any other country, 100 persons -all women- losing their kidneys ,will be a national news and sufficient enough to bring down the government.We live in a different country with a different ethos where the horoscope of Aishwarya Rai will be the front page news of the major National Dailies and so we have to raise this issue with whatever alternative fora available to us.
Several questions.:
Who are these brokers and under whose orders do they operate?
Which are the hospitals that undertake these surgeries?
Which authorisation commitee[if at all they went through the committee] permitted a hundred [and more] women from a single locality to donate their kidneys to an extermely divergent section of recipients under the dubious "emotionally related " clause? Authorisation committee is required to verify proof of residence of the donors and 100 from a single hamlet ought to attract the attntion of even the dumbest member of this committee.
The newspapers also mention foreigners [atleast in some cases ]as the beneficiaries . If this is true ,it is a clear contravention of the law and amounts to criminal smuggling of organs.Even recipients from other states cannot have their transplants in Tamilnadu since they require permiossion from their respective states.
Who are the Nephrologists and Urologists and Anesathetists invoved in this racket. Surely they can't take refuge under the excuse that since the authorisation committee has permitted the trtansplant ,they turn the otherway.They must all be summoned and examined by the judiciary .
By now the brokers wold have melted in to thin air. So many similar rackets were reported in the past but to my knowledge not a single broker had ever been brought to book.Atleast this time we must know who these brokers are and who their masters are.
This state his supposed to have an excellent law and order machinery. Intelligence gathering is a part of routine police activity. It is very difficult to believe that the local police station did not know what is going on in this tiny hamlet. Active connivance of the state machinery must also be looked into.
Finall about our NGO friends. Tsunami has made many of them millionairres.Dollars poured to all these NGOs .Now we find that just outside the city of Chennai these victims of tsunami live in Hell's Hole under pitiable conditions and forced to sell their organs to eke out a living.And the CEOS of these NGOs travel in swanky cars,live in bungalows and attend meetings in Belgium and Sweden and Finland [and God knows which other country],explaining to their donors about the marvellous rehablilitation work they do
among the victims of tsunami.
I am digressing. To come back , I think this racket has many serious implications and only a thorough ,transparent and honest inquiry by competent legal authorities will bring the offenders to book and prevent Madras from becoming the international center for organ smugglers.
Yesterday's evening Tamil papers [Malai Malar and Tamil Murasu] from Chennai [13-1-2007] carried lead stories about kidney racket in Chennai.[Alas ,once more]
Tsunami nagar is a recently created hamlet near Ennore, for those who lost all their belongings 2 years ago to tsunami.About 100 persons ,all ladies between 18 to 30 years of age ,have sold their kidneys due to utter penury in the last 2 years.While the brokers gave them around 50,000 for a kidney, they sold it to willing recipients ,to God knows how much.
One lady says that because of the relocation her husband is not able to go to sea [he had to spend about 30 rupees a day to reach his place to take the boat to sea ]and the earnings are meagre from fishing and hence she sold her kidney.The money vanished in no time and they are back to their penury. Since she has had a major surgery she is not able to do hard work either and she is blank about her future.
Another lady,just 18 years of age with 2 children and a drunkard husband sold her kidney.The doctors have advised against sex for 6 months.Her husband took the money ,threw her out and she is in her mother's house now with her 2 children with shattered physique and home.
Another one went along with her broker to sell the kidney. Since she had very high BP she was unfit to sell the kidney. But the resourceful broker took her hair and gave her 500 rupees.Many have sold their kidneys to get their daughters married. One lady got her daughter married off by selling her kidney. The husband has deserted the wife and the mother who is already weak after the surgery-has to support the daughter too.
Please note that the donors are all women. None was a male.[I bet all the recipients would be males] and all of them in their prime of life. The organs were harvested from hospitals in Chennai and Madurai but the officials are tightlipped about the hospitals.As usual a RDO enquiry has been ordered.
Any other country, 100 persons -all women- losing their kidneys ,will be a national news and sufficient enough to bring down the government.We live in a different country with a different ethos where the horoscope of Aishwarya Rai will be the front page news of the major National Dailies and so we have to raise this issue with whatever alternative fora available to us.
Several questions.:
Who are these brokers and under whose orders do they operate?
Which are the hospitals that undertake these surgeries?
Which authorisation commitee[if at all they went through the committee] permitted a hundred [and more] women from a single locality to donate their kidneys to an extermely divergent section of recipients under the dubious "emotionally related " clause? Authorisation committee is required to verify proof of residence of the donors and 100 from a single hamlet ought to attract the attntion of even the dumbest member of this committee.
The newspapers also mention foreigners [atleast in some cases ]as the beneficiaries . If this is true ,it is a clear contravention of the law and amounts to criminal smuggling of organs.Even recipients from other states cannot have their transplants in Tamilnadu since they require permiossion from their respective states.
Who are the Nephrologists and Urologists and Anesathetists invoved in this racket. Surely they can't take refuge under the excuse that since the authorisation committee has permitted the trtansplant ,they turn the otherway.They must all be summoned and examined by the judiciary .
By now the brokers wold have melted in to thin air. So many similar rackets were reported in the past but to my knowledge not a single broker had ever been brought to book.Atleast this time we must know who these brokers are and who their masters are.
This state his supposed to have an excellent law and order machinery. Intelligence gathering is a part of routine police activity. It is very difficult to believe that the local police station did not know what is going on in this tiny hamlet. Active connivance of the state machinery must also be looked into.
Finall about our NGO friends. Tsunami has made many of them millionairres.Dollars poured to all these NGOs .Now we find that just outside the city of Chennai these victims of tsunami live in Hell's Hole under pitiable conditions and forced to sell their organs to eke out a living.And the CEOS of these NGOs travel in swanky cars,live in bungalows and attend meetings in Belgium and Sweden and Finland [and God knows which other country],explaining to their donors about the marvellous rehablilitation work they do
among the victims of tsunami.
I am digressing. To come back , I think this racket has many serious implications and only a thorough ,transparent and honest inquiry by competent legal authorities will bring the offenders to book and prevent Madras from becoming the international center for organ smugglers.
posted by Satya at 8:42 PM
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Some update. Two brokers are arrested.The records from major hospitals involved in thios racket are sought by CB CID. Nothing more has happened.As predicted all the big fishes the nephrologist,urologists and the hospital owners , all will escape.This was always the case and this would continue.
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