Poverty-stricken Britons have resorted to social networking websites such as Facebook in a desperate bid to make some income through selling their body organs.
Amid deteriorating economic situation and rampant joblessness, many in the UK are seeking to market their organs by visiting web pages created on Facebook, where hard-hit families arrange transactions.
It is unlawful in Britain to advertise organs for sale and a three-year jail term awaits those who may enter the business.
Therefore, poor Britons fly to the Far East, where they can flog their organs for cash in black market operations.
Ruthless gangs which operate the underground organ industry have set up specific pages on Facebook, where they run their trade in human body parts.
They collect customers’ blood type and their state of health and ask for proposed price, then they make other arrangements for the horrible bargain.
A self-employed father-of-three from north-east England is the latest example of those who are willing to risk their lives for cash. He has asked for a £30,000 payment in exchange for kidneys.
“I know it would be a big thing to do but for the right amount I would be willing,” he says.
Another example is a 22-year-old man living in Northampton. He has marketed a kidney for £20,000. The young guy needed the money to take his pregnant fiancée to Hungary, where they both originated from.
According to the World Health Organization’s estimates, some 10,000 black market kidney transplants were reported in 2012.
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