Pakistani organ market

[RoConroy@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/3/2005 11:55:44 AM Central Standard Time, 
sal.cerda at rocketmail.com writes:
I find this very hard to accept. With no good roads and very primitive
conditions, how would these people move body parts to market?  For that 
matter,
what market is there for body parts in third world countries?  Without modern
technology and anti-rejection drugs, organ replacemenet is nearly impossible. 
These are very remote and inaccessible regions, hence the problem in getting
emergency supplies to them.  If some UN guy said this, I would wonder about 
his
information or maybe the context.
         The UN guy's comments were limited to conditions and number of 
remote villages, bad roads, the pulling out because of lack of funds, and the great 
job the U.N. is doing  
              The article about a grandmother selling her orphaned grand 
daughter into prostitution, was from an Australian article.  The grandmother got 
something in the order of $2500 for the daughter.  The Pakistani government has 
since forbidden people from picking up orphaned children released from their 
hospitals, without proper creditials. The madam plans to sell the girls 
virginity for $4200 and then use her as a lower class prostitute.  Of course, she 
saw nothing wrong in what she was doing.  It is something like the PBS special 
last night, whereas about 14 Indian village elders raped a 13 year old girl for 
going to their meeting, and asking that the village quit beating up her 
brother for dating a girl from a rival village. 
        The part about body parts was a different article altogether, and it 
had to do with gangs from Afghanistan going in and cutting out the kidneys and 
putting them on ice and then selling, not for use in third world countries, 
but to be shipped on ice, and sold in first world countries.
        The part about a Pakistani's selling his own body parts, was another 
article which stated the man got the idea first, when he heard of a women who 
sold one of her eyes.  The people are transported to a town in India, where 
the operation occurs, and then the part is shipped on ice to whomever has the 
most money.  The guy who sold his kidney only got about $2500, but the middle 
man got about $1000 supposedly, and since an organ is probably worth around 
$35,000, depending on spot market pricing, someone is making a killing.  
     You can read some of the articles yourself by simply doing a topic 
search at URL:
WorldNetDaily - A Free Press for a Free People  http://www.worldnetdaily.com
     You can probably get a transcript of the UN man in charge from the PBS 
website by checking on the 11:00 P.M., CST, wednesday slot for that interview.  
Bob