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Isn't India one of the top countries for surprise kidney removal?

General link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade#Illegal_organ_trade



That's a factual statement. Just like you could've gone to the dentist in Oklahome and got H1V or Hepatitis. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/60-oklahoma-dental-patients-tes...


It's the likelihood that's important, not the binary.


> Payment for…organs is likely to take unfair advantage of the poorest and most vulnerable groups, undermines altruistic donation and leads to profiteering and human trafficking.

That is probably the reason India is ranked high. No "surprise kidney removals". It is usually the rich (and sometimes people from the west) that can not get a transplant legally in their countries opt to buy their way out of it in more lax countries.


That's irrelevant to the topic at hand.


The insinuation is that this hospital is scammy in some way, perhaps covering its costs by harvesting organs.

I somewhat understand where that skepticism comes from, as scam operations in developing countries are not unheard of.

That said, this would seem to be a big enough operation to not be going down that route, and to be fair, these organ stealing operations are far less common than we fear them to be. Just a bit of paranoia floating around.

I'd be far more worried that this operation is taking risks with patient care (in-op and post-op) in its cost cutting. I'd think it much more likely that you walk away from a low-cost hospital with an infection than missing an organ.




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