DER SPIEGEL, German public broadcaster ZDF and Deutsche Well teamed up over the course of several months to follow the organ trail. From Germany and Poland via Israel to the clinic in Eldoret, Kenya, that is currently in the center of an international and seemingly criminal kidney trade. The transactions and transplants link patients in Germany with donors in Caucasus nations like Azerbaijan. And it links prosperous Somalians with young Kenyans who are talked into earning a quick 2,000 to 5,000 euros for one of their kidneys, while patients in the West pay up to 200,000 euros to the organ traders – preferably in cash.
This is a long-standing problem and by far not only related to this Kenya case. There is even a case that EU funds may have unintentionally supported forced organ harvesting:
In 2021, a group of UN Special Rapporteurs and human rights experts issued a joint correspondence to the Chinese Government […] regarding credible allegations of forced organ harvesting in China. The following year, [the European] Parliament adopted a resolution […] also raising concern over forced organ harvesting in China and called on ‘the relevant institutions in the Member States to evaluate and revisit the terms of their collaborations with Chinese institutions on transplant medicine, research and training’.
This, coupled with the launch of ‘New Horizon’ – an EU-China transplant training programme, whose honoured guest, Professor Shusen Zheng, is a Chinese transplant surgeon accused of involvement in forced organ harvesting […] – has raised concerns over whether this allocation of funding upholds EU values.
The issue is not yet cleared afaik.
Bonus point for the woman being a case worker for a major public health insurance - one that is well known to fuck over their clients.
It’s just so fitting.
We need EU wide legislation against providing aftercare for these people and a hospital blacklist.
Not suspicious at all!!
Experts have been raising alarm for years about such criminal practices, and not only in Kenya. In some authoritarian countries, forced organ harvesting (such as from detainees, or members of minority groups) is even orchestrated by the countries’ governments.
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Damn, that’s so wrong. Humans should not sell their own body parts for a living.
To let people be put in a position where this is the only seemingly solution to be able to live on, is where we failed as humans.
This is avoidable. Most suffering worldwide would be avoidable or at least seen to be taken care of, if our mighty billionaires would cut off a little piece of their wealth, for humankind. Theoretically at least.
All humans would have to stop being greedy little shits, so that money can reach the people it’s intended to reach.
