Although a trade of human organs is a crime in Nepal, abject poverty, illiteracy and lack of public awareness have resulted in an alarming situation in eastern Nepal after people went on selling their kidneys as an alternative to meet basic needs of their own.More than 300 people from one village have sold their kidneys to organ traffickers. The practice of illegal trading of human organs has become so common in villages of Kavre district, some 45 km far from Nepali capital.
Police in Nepal found that people sell their kidneys for money. It is believed that the network of kidney smugglers is huge in Nepal. The villagers are usually taken to India by giving hopes that they could find good jobs. Some do it believing the words of agents while others do it simply for money. It clearly illustrates the fact that even the Nepali hospitals and its doctors are some how associated with kidneys smugglers. The small amount of money they have got from selling their kidneys might be sufficient to pay some loans and run their household for sometime, but the psychological torture and physical pain they have received is likely to remain for a long period.
