Organs on the black market, or selling and buying organs - is illegal. It's a topic we hear about but don't want to talk about. Surely it doesn't happen here. Not in our country. At least not to or by people that we know, or know of... It's mostly the unknowns that participate in this kind of thing, like when people talk about the Mafia, it's almost... fiction, if you can wrap yourself up in a nice little pollyanna-ish bubble.
The sad truth is, because there are not enough organs available compared to the number of people in need of them, people right here in our own back yards are becoming desperate. Yes, desperate enough to go into the black market in search of a potentially life-saving organ.
CTV has the story.
1 in 9 Americans are living with kidney disease and most don't know it. NKF
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