Severe poverty has forced a large number of villagers in rural areas of Punjab specially Sargodha division districts to sell their kidneys to private individuals or hospitals. According to a report, the trade in human organs has been flourishing in the country, with more than 200 such cases coming to light in recent months and it is being run on professional and modern fraudulent techniques.

Doctors say that this practice is common in many other parts of the country. While the average market price for a kidney is about 10-15 lake rupees, most donors are exploited by senseless middle-men who skin off a large part of the amount. However, if poverty is forcing an increasing number of people to take this drastic step, it is the lock of a legal framework for kidney donation and transplants that is the root of the problem. The law, as it stands, in Pakistan today only allow for live donors and transplants from living person with their written consent in this regard. Every year some 10,000 people develop end-stage renal disease in Pakistan which requires a kidney transplant or prolonged and expensive bouts of dialysis to keep the patient alive.

There is, however, a large gap between the donors and the organ-requires.

Pakistan and Bangladesh are the only countries in the region that do not have a law formed on this subject. In India, where all kinds of horrifying stories of forced donation had merged, cadaver donations have been legalized ,reducing the exploitation of poor, compared to this thousands of people in Pakistan continues to die every year, due to lack of donors.

it is the worst conditions of the morality of the people of the sub-continent that defame their countries in the outer world circles. The kidney transplant mafia work on modern, scientific organized marketing manners in the sequence of which, some great scandals were reported in India in this regard which is blasphemous.



The government and media should launch a campaign against illegal and alleged kidney sale and the authorities should make special laws in this regard to alleviate kidney sale on business grounds other than need-base.