Chinese boy sold his kidney for get ......iPhone

Chinese boy sold his kidney for get ......iPhone

 

A 17 years young high-school student in China sold his kidney for an illegal transplant operation and used the earnings to buy an Apple iPhone and iPad.The teenage boy, who was paid 22,000 yuan ($3,500), was recruited from an online chat room and is now suffering from kidney failure and in weakening health. 

For that A surgeon and four others have been in prison and are facing charges of illegal organ trading and intentional injury.The kidney giver, only known by his surname Wang, agreed to the April 2011 operation in the central state of Hunan without his parents consent.One of those detained He Wei known as a hard-up gambler known, who acted as a middle-man between a hospital worker and the teenager. He was rewarded 220,000 yuan($35000).

In China about 1.5 million people need transplants, but only around 10,000 transplants are got annually according to Health ministry.The vast space has led to a thriving prohibited market for organs.