Iranians are selling their body organs to make ends meet
Handwritten notes on walls advertising human body parts for sale Here’s a sight that has sadly become all too common in Iran: Handwritten notes on walls advertising body parts for sale, complete with blood type, health state, the age of seller and phone number to contact. This is how Iran’s poor are selling their own health to make ends meet. What makes the situation even more tragic that every day, more of the country’s youth join the ranks of body organ sellers. These are youth who are suffering from the corrupt policies of the ruling regime and resort to desperate measures such as selling kidney, livers, retina… Outrageously, state-run medical centers and official hospitals and other institutions tied to Iranian officials make stellar profits from intermediating the process of selling body organs of poor people. Among these institutions is the Association of Kidney Patients and Khomeini Hospital in Tehran, which recently posted an ad for selling body organs. The offic...