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Poor Pakistanis Donate Kidneys for Money

Nassem Kausar has done it. So, she says, have her sister, six brothers, five sisters-in-law and two nephews. Each has sold a kidney to a trade that has led Pakistan’s media to dub the country a “kidney bazaar.” “We do this because of our poverty,” said Kausar, who is in her 30s and lives with her family in Sultanpur Mor, a village in eastern Pakistan. A kidney nets the donor $2,500, sometimes less than half that amount, while recipients _ some 2,000 a year _ pay $6,000 to $12,000, compared with $70,000 in neighboring China. Full Story