By Zubeida Mustafa
Source: Dawn
LAT Sunday, the newspapers carried the picture of a Bangladeshi woman who has offered to sell one of her eyes to earn some cash. Her husband has abandoned her and she is desperate for money. Shefali, that is the name of the unfortunate woman, is perhaps the first one to offer an eye.
Otherwise, the sale of human kidneys for transplantation has become, in recent years, quite common in many Third World countries. But as this unethical practice has assumed alarming proportions, governments have moved to ban the trade in organs and regulate transplantation.
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