Healthy Kidney for Sale. RUSH!

Nov 23, 2007 Health, Life, Poverty, Society

Kidney for Sale. RUSH! Hello. I am a 34 year old male from Manila, Philippines (ASIA). I am selling one of my kidneys to pay for a medical and financial debt. I am a non-smoker, non-drinker. I am NOT into drugs. Im a clean living lifestyle person. Healthy, no operations in the past, no medical condition. Blood type AB+. THIS IS NOT A JOKE OR SCAM. NEED SERIOUS PEOPLE FOR THIS.

You’re right, you are not browsing ebay here. I saw this ad, it’s true this guy is selling his kidney. Sadly, many Filipinos are doing this in exchange for money. Years ago, we heard this news that many of our Kababayans sprouted out like mushrooms rushing to sell their kidneys. An average of Php50,000-120,000 each. To the man who doesn’t know anything, that’s a fortune! Big money! But they do not know what they’re giving up. Today, they may enjoy the money while they’re young, but in the future, let’s say 20-30 years from now, i bet they’ll regret their decision.

This year, in a recent study of the University of the Philippines, there were 3,000 men and women who had sold their kidneys. Which was found in a slum area in Metro Manila.

I want to share with you this story,

Marlene Maico was only two years old at the time. Then she fell sick. Very sick - with several diseases at the same time. Her life could only be saved if she was treated properly at a hospital.

But I had no money, says the father, 31-year-old Satur Maico. The family lived in a shanty in Bagong Lupa, a large slum area close to the harbor in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.

Garbage and sewage are floating below the shanties. There is visible damage after a typhoon hit a few months earlier, in which many of the families lost their homes. For many people it is a depressing life. There is no work. At least not every day. And when they get something to do, residents say, pay is a meager 3 to 6 dollars.

In this neighborhood a desparate Maico helplessly watched his daughter on the brink of death. Finally he chose what he considered to be his only alternative: He accepted that one of his two kidneys was removed from the body and transplanted into a man who was willing to pay.

I received 70.000 pesos for my kidney. That is the smallest amount anyone has been paid in this area. But I was desperate and did not have much to negotiate with.

Thus the daughter, who now is six years old, was admitted to hospital. The father could afford the 15.000 pesos fee. And she survived.

Today a long scar at the right side of his body bear witness of Maico’s sacrifice for his daughter. And at least 150 other men have the same scar in this slum area.

In the Philippines anyone donates their kidneys out of sympathy. Instead agonizing poverty and human misery are the encouraging forces behind their acceptance. This is terrible. Instead of donating human organs to family and love ones, one should suffer to alleviate their lives.

How about you? Are you going to sell your kidney or donate it to your family?

Kidney for Sale by Pinoy Ambisyoso.