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| India-Pakistan |
| Man sells wife's kidney for a tractor |
| 2007-03-07 |
| Yeah, but it was a NICE tractor. BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan -- A farmer in Pakistan confessed to convincing doctors to remove one of his wife's kidneys so he could sell it and buy a used tractor, his wife said. Police are investigating Safia Thaheem Bibi's claim. If convicted of unlawfully removing a kidney, her husband, Shakeel Ahmed, faces up to 10 years in prison, The Sunday Telegraph reported. Bibi, 22, said she discovered she was missing a kidney when she returned to the hospital after developing an infection following unrelated surgery. She confronted her husband, whom she said told her he had received $1,100 for her kidney and bought a used tractor to use in his rice fields. Organ donations are unregulated in Pakistan, and in some villages most able-bodies adults have sold one of their kidneys, the newspaper reported. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #2 John Deere? J.I. Case? |
| Posted by: borgboy 2007-03-07 15:39 |
| #1 Curious, did he get a 'doggy bag' or did the doctor sell it for him? Where does one go to sell a kidney anyway? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-03-07 14:42 |