China remains one of the only countries that allow the continuation of the sale of the organs harvested from criminals who have been executed. Though many other countries see the practice as dehumanizing and unethical, it poses one possible solution to the organ shortage seen all over the world. Several controversial factors play a part in this ongoing practice. Doctors in China sometimes make record profits off these illegal transplants, and often perform these operations more hastily than they would a legal organ transplant. Both human rights activists and the World Medical Organization alike agree that stricter government control should be put in place to more closely monitor these operations and organ harvests.
BASSOUL, JOELLE. "Egypt's Illegal Organ Trade Thrives on Poverty." New York Times 04/04/2006 8 Dec 2008
In Egypt, slums are becoming the world’s next big organ factory. In these unsanitary environments, those who live in poverty are often happy to sell their organs to rich buyers ready to pay up and undergo surgeries that often pay them more than they would earn in a year. For some unlucky Egyptians, however, this is not their view of the organ trade. Several impoverished are kidnapped each year and are given medication so that when they awake with only one kidney, they have no idea where they were before their experience from hell. Trickery is also used when applicants for a job are conned out of their organs through a request for some medical tests. After taking these medications, they reawake with no idea as to where they are and with the cons nowhere in sight.
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