I'll sell a kidney. Expensive
Victor Kostyukovskiy,
the special correspondent of the Russian Foundation for assistance
The media is now willing to use the information for charities on the volume of donations as an indicator of crisis in the economy. Volumes are falling, ordering one funds to live long, and others to curtail some of the programs. Our Foundation issue has affected less than others, for which special thanks to the readers of "y", Gazetyi and the website of the Russian Foundation for assistance. In five months, collected 66.1 million RUB is only 6 million less than in January-may 2008. But there is one more indicator that is also available and dramatic: the letters in distress people. In our post the following sentence: "Sell kidney. Expensive." We did not receive such letters exactly 10 years.
Mail Rusfond this year was noticeably bigger, but new topics in her virtually only two, and those, in fact, one and the same. First, the authors asking for a loan to pay off the loans, and promise to return the loan "as soon as everything will be fine". And the second count on assistance in the sale of their kidneys or other organs, because "the business collapsed and need perevoditsya". These emails usually confessional. They are very similar to our mail a decade ago, during the crisis of the 90s. However, the Internet is the lack of such ads was not in the best of times. They are usually anonymous and is very smacks of fraud.
I managed to contact the author of several letters in the Rusfond. 25-year-old Nicholas said that his push for such unusual step of "hopelessness, unemployment and debts." It is recognized that the problems of organ transplantation and the law in this respect has no idea. But he knows well: "no one kidney is easily possible to live." Indeed, if we deny one of the two kidneys, "live", but if you deny the one, then he will need the donor, and at best, and at worst a coffin. My long pause, I think the idea in his head did not come.
Another case: a 40-year-old wife, entrepreneurs. They just all know all the risks evaluate and try to go on an illegal donation consciously. Other way, say no crisis, debt... These people are scammers, they are truly backed into a corner.
Chief researcher of the Department of surgery of the Russian scientific center of radiology and surgical technologies of Professor Dmitry Granov sure that in any case, all such proposals criminal property. Under the laws of most countries, including Russia, organs and tissues can not be the object of sale. Transplantation is carried out either from a cadaver or from a close relative of the patient, and other legal options exist. It is naive to believe that it is possible to sell the kidney, the surgeon will cut and put in a "organ Bank". No miracle, because the organs for transplantation live a few hours. Stories about kidnappings "the authorities" and the clandestine clinics presented to Dmitry Granowo horror stories, which is nothing but a sick imagination of their authors. At the same time, he talks about last year's Istanbul conference transplant, which adopted a Declaration against transplant tourism and organ trafficking. The surgeons are really able to carry out such an operation, never will not do it, said the Professor. The risk is too great, and the doctor of the highest qualification have something to lose. So, if anyone does, then Konovalov, not burdened conscience, "are You ready to give them my life?".
However, well-known criminologist and Professor at St. Petersburg law Institute of the Academy of the Prosecutor General Yakov Gilinsky believes that to exclude the possibility of committing such crimes in Russia is impossible. The demand for donor organs huge, and the prices are too high for this topic criminal structures are avoided. Such crimes (article 120 of the criminal code, the forced removal of organs or tissues for transplantation, the organ donation) are well disguised. They are almost always committed by an organized group. The number of registered crimes in the world amounts to literally units, and the cases that reach the court, and no one heard. More details in the press. Professor Gilinsky finds them very believable. The fact that the removal of organs is likely not in Russia (according to rumors it is done in Turkey, India, Pakistan, and China), this is not a comfort. Our citizens can become victims of crime and criminals, for example, intermediaries, suppliers of goods.
So ironically called "horror stories" talk about criminal donation, the sale of organs, and even living people Yakov Gilinsky is not solved. The problem, he said, is real.
It would seem that all this was not worth to write because the theme of the return of the foreign debt has never always been popular among our readers. In the crisis of the 90s, for example, readers did not respond to requests for help to repay the Bank or partner. Both then and now, helps seriously ill children, and sometimes only in the reader's help does not make those kids in the hopeless.
Or is it worth it, dear friends, to return to unpopular topic? Please let us know.
Here's the new letter: "the Family was in the credit function, the business went bankrupt, work in the city. It is necessary to pay the Bank RUB 2 million debt. There is no possibility to sell the house, and there's things for sale. Offered his own kidney or part of liver. Help me find a buyer."
I don't know what to say. Except: don't rush!
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19.06.2009