Kidney trade in Afghanistan

Selling kidneys in Afghanistan is like a business. Herat and Kabul are among the centers for buying and selling organs in this country. There are private hospitals for kidney transplants in these cities. According to some people in the region, customers from Iran and Turkmenistan come to Herat to buy kidneys.

Residents of Shahr-e-Sabz, 20 km from Herat province, who have been facing severe drought for the past three years in addition to the above problems, are struggling to survive in harsh winter conditions. Some people in Afghanistan have been selling organs, especially their kidneys, for years to provide for themselves and their families.

Now the situation has worsened since the beginning of the Taliban era and the cessation of international aid to Afghanistan and has become a problem for more than half of the population.

A Part of the population, mostly Pashtuns, migrated to nearby provinces during the civil war, while others continued to live in thatched houses due to a lack of electricity and municipal water, as well as heating.

More than 70 residents of the city told AA that they want to sell their kidneys and those of their children. They say they have nothing to eat but tea and dry bread, and that selling their organs is the only solution.

"Our economic situation is so complicated that I want to sell one of my children. I want to save the rest of the family," a local resident told Anadolu News Agency.

More than 200 people have come to the hospital in the past five months to sell organs, according to local health officials.

Since the beginning of the Taliban era, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the US Federal Reserve have blocked Afghanistan's access to international aid and assets. On the one hand, it has increased unemployment, poverty and hunger in Afghanistan, and on the other hand, it has put more than 28 million people at risk of acute food insecurity.

 

_{Source and Credit: AA, UN}