A Young Boy Sold His Kidney 8 Years Ago To Purchase An iPhone Suffers Miserably Soon

A 25-year-old Chinese man is constricted to his bed and needs constant attention due to a decision he made eight years ago. Xiao Zheng, like every other teenager, was obsessed with buying an Apple product. Due to his financial constraints, he could not afford a new iPhone and An Ipad that he deeply desired. At the age of 17, he made the worst decision of his life by trying to sell his kidney for some money in return.

He desperately tried to prove his trendiness to his classmates by purchasing an Apple product. Back then he underwent a procedure where one of his kidneys were removed in central Hunan Province of China. Zheng was paid only paid 22,000 yuan (£2,000) for his organ. In an attempt to hide the details of this procedure from his family he traveled to the eastern Anhui province from his home in secrecy. 

As reported by CNTV the boy previously identified as Xiao Zheng said that he wanted an iPad but could not afford it and got in touch with someone who could get him enough money just for one of his kidneys: ” At the time, I wanted to buy an iPad2, but I didn’t have any money. When I was on the internet, I had a kidney agent send a message, saying that selling a kidney can give me 20,000.” He was discharged after 3 days.

The accused doctor who carried out this operation identifies Zheng as Wang and says that the operation was performed at an uncertified clinic which was provided by the middleman. Reports say that the kidney was sold to a patient illegally for $10,000 (£7,860) and another 150,000 yuan (£17,258) for the process. Wang received 10% of the total profit which was 22,000 yuan and the majority of the share was taken by the middleman who facilitated the whole process.

Without any further delay, the boy purchased the electronic gadgets that he so desperately wanted to get. When his mother saw the expensive laptop and iPhone she was surprised to the core and started asking her son about the source of the money.In an interview with BBC News she said”, “When my son came home he had a laptop computer and an Apple phone. I asked him where all the money for that came from. When he couldn’t keep it to himself any longer he finally told us. He said, ‘Mum, I sold my kidney.’ When he told me I felt like the sky was crashing down on our family.”

Wang’s mother immediately called the police and reported this illegal activity. Initially, the hospital refused such claims but in 2012 five people were arrested which included the doctor who performed the operation and the middleman who arranged it. They were charged with intention to injury and were jailed for three to five years. Wangs family was compensated with a sum of 1.47 million yuan (£169,000) after the court ruled in November 2012. A few days after the surgery Wang’s health started deteriorating at a speedy rate which made his family worry a lot.

He slowly developed a renal deficiency and has been bedridden since then. Illegal selling of organs has become a fairly common practice in China according to The Telegraph. Although the Chinese government has been trying to irradicate this practice it is still quite prevalent. People pay the hefty amount that can go up to £50,000 just to get a new kidney in China. It’s the demand that needs to be curbed in order to wash away the black market for such organs.

If you view the statistics, more than one million people residing in China suffer from organ failurea and require a transplant every year but due to these illegal trading, less than 10,000 people are able find a matching organ doner through a proper and legal channel. The shortage of organ is further increased as only a handful of Chinese agree to donate their organs after death because of their belief that their corpse such remain untouched so that they can enjoy their afterlife in heaven. 

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