Five charged after teen sells kidney to buy iPad
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April 7, 2012, Saturday
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FIVE people in southern China face charges of illegal trading of a kidney taken from a teenager who bought an iPhone and an iPad with the earnings, local authorities said yesterday.
The five, including a surgeon, were charged with intentional injury, the people's procuratorate in the city of Chenzhou, Hunan Province, said in a statement.
Defendant He Wei, who was penniless and frustrated over gambling debts, sought to make enormous earnings through illegal kidney trading, according to the agency.
He asked Yin Shen to look for donors through online chat rooms and Tang Shimin to lease an operating room from Su Kaizong, the contractor of a local hospital's urology department, it stated.
Song Zhongyu, a surgeon from Yunnan Province, conducted the kidney transplant from a 17-year-old high school student from Anhui Province, surnamed Wang, to a recipient in April last year. He received 220,000 yuan (US$35,000) for the activity and gave Wang 22,000 yuan. He, the other four defendants and several other medical staff involved in the transplant shared the remaining earnings.
Wang confessed to his mother that he sold one of his kidneys when questioned how he got money for a new iPhone and iPad.
Wang now suffers from renal insufficiency and his condition is deteriorating.
Several other suspects involved in the case are still being investigated.
Statistics from the Ministry of Health show that about 1.5 million people in China need transplants, but only around 10,000 transplants are performed annually. The huge gap has led to a thriving illegal market for organs.
In 2007, the Chinese government issued its first regulations on human organ transplants, banning organizations and individuals from trading human organs.
The five, including a surgeon, were charged with intentional injury, the people's procuratorate in the city of Chenzhou, Hunan Province, said in a statement.
Defendant He Wei, who was penniless and frustrated over gambling debts, sought to make enormous earnings through illegal kidney trading, according to the agency.
He asked Yin Shen to look for donors through online chat rooms and Tang Shimin to lease an operating room from Su Kaizong, the contractor of a local hospital's urology department, it stated.
Song Zhongyu, a surgeon from Yunnan Province, conducted the kidney transplant from a 17-year-old high school student from Anhui Province, surnamed Wang, to a recipient in April last year. He received 220,000 yuan (US$35,000) for the activity and gave Wang 22,000 yuan. He, the other four defendants and several other medical staff involved in the transplant shared the remaining earnings.
Wang confessed to his mother that he sold one of his kidneys when questioned how he got money for a new iPhone and iPad.
Wang now suffers from renal insufficiency and his condition is deteriorating.
Several other suspects involved in the case are still being investigated.
Statistics from the Ministry of Health show that about 1.5 million people in China need transplants, but only around 10,000 transplants are performed annually. The huge gap has led to a thriving illegal market for organs.
In 2007, the Chinese government issued its first regulations on human organ transplants, banning organizations and individuals from trading human organs.
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