Arun none of the indian doctors want to help find my dad a kidney. I have found him some people that will sell him one - but the doctors in India want to intervene in the free market and stop this.
They told me it was better for the starving indian to die and my father to die than these 2 people meet in the free market - when asked how they justify this - a hospital doctor in India sent me this (regarding the policy that only a direct relative can give a kidney)
The stricter policy was put in place because without such policies there were many poor, illiterate people who were easily being enticed to putting their own lives at risk for pathetically small sums of money that made no significant difference in their lives whatsoever.
Regards,
IndUShealth
Now I thought 30K US dollars was a lot of money to a poor starving indian after reading this - is 30K us dollars a pathetically small sum of money to these guys Arun? Their policy prevents the poor of India from getting ANY price - pathetically small or abundantly large - how silly and selfish.
oheraldo.in
Malsinghwala is one of a spate of villages across INDIA that have suddenly been put up for sale. Similar reports are coming from across INDIA. What began as an isolated and an extreme case of rural distress is now slowly and steadily spreading its tentacles throughout the country. In December 2005, Dorli in Wardha district of Maharashtra in central INDIA became the first village outside the frontline agricultural state of Punjab - the harbinger of Green Revolution in INDIA - to make itself available for sale. With signboards pasted all around, and the slogan “ Dorli village is for sale” painted on the cattle back and trees, what appeared to be a bizarre tale is now becoming a sad but widespread reality. Dorli village comprises 270 residents, 500 livestock, and nearly 600 acres of agricultural land. Every villager, including children, has an outstanding debt of Rs 30,000. A few weeks later, hundreds of residents of Chingapur village in Yeotmal region of Maharashtra, invited the President of INDIA, Dr Abdul Kalam, and the Prime Minister, Mr Manmohan Singh, to preside over a ‘human market’ for the sale of KIDNEYS. Unable to repay the mounting debts, the villagers had decided to go in for mass sale of KIDNEYS. The situation in the neighbouring villages is no better.
“It is debt,” says Gurjit Singh, a huge Sikh farmer who stands in the hot sun. “We cannot pay our debts. If someone else can come here and make the land pay, we’re prepared to work for them.” The farmers of Malsinghwala own their own land. But they are so heavily in debt they would prefer to give that up and work as common labourers. Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of a strong, independent INDIAn society based on its villages is dying under the sizzling Punjab sun. |
