Field notes from Nepal’s single-kidney village

In Hokse of Kavrepalanchowk, poor and unemployed people have been lured into selling their kidneys.

Organ trading remains a mushrooming business around the world, as human organs, tissues or other body parts are sold and bought for transplantation. As the word trading suggests, monetary values are attached to the donors' organs, giving rise to societal problems. The problem of organ trading is often attributed to poverty, but much deeper issues are linked to it. Only a systematic investigation will unearth why and how organ trading occurs in a particular community.