亞洲英文新聞-Chinese teenager sells kidney to buy iPhone & iPad

A man uses his iPhone 4S in front of an Apple store 
in San Francisco, California on April 24.

A teenage high-school student in China sold his kidney for an illicit transplant operation and used the proceeds to buy an Apple iPhone and iPad, state press said.

The 17-year-old boy, who was paid 22,000 yuan (NT$102,000), was recruited from an online chatroom and is now suffering from kidney failure and in deteriorating health, the Xinhua news agency said. A surgeon and four others have been arrested and are facing charges of illegal organ trading and intentional injury.

The kidney donor, only identified by his surname Wang, agreed to the April 2011 operation in the central province of Hunan without his parents consent, the report said. One of those detained was a hard up gambler who acted as a middleman between a hospital worker and the teenager. He was paid 220,000 yuan.

Health ministry statistics show that about 1.5 million people in China need transplants, but only around 10,000 transplants are performed annually. The huge gap has led to a thriving illegal market for organs.

(Liberty Times)

Questions:

1. Why did the high-school student sell his kidney? What is your reaction about this?
2. What is the boy suffering now because of the transplant?
3. Would you do the same?
4. Will you donate your organs to medicine so they can be transplanted after you die?
5. How do you think would someone change after a brain transplant?

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