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To: sciAticA errAticA who wrote (53334)	7/14/2006 5:51:13 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 116555

Dad needs a Kidney I contacted all those people Goo - my dad needs a kidney - they all say you have to have a donor that is a relative. My dad says he wants to help some poor starving man in India live a better life - but the doctors all say NO - you cannot buy a kidney - it is unethical. Its better for the starving man to die and you die than the 2 of you meet in the free market and help each other - doctors exist to make money - not put themselves out of business eh? Got any ideas for where I can go and find a kidney in India? The people below are begging for buyers - can anyone give me some ideas. It is looking like me and dad are gonna have to fly over there and are not having much luck getting it all set up before we leave the states. 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.