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In Afghanistan, in the western province of Herat, residents in urgent need of money are forced to sell an organ.
The scar is still clearly visible. A month ago, an Afghan family man from the city of Qudoosabad (Afghanistan), sold one of his kidneys to support his family. “I couldn’t go out and beg fore money. So I decided to go to the hospital and sell my kidney, all to feed my children “, Explain Ghulam Hazrat. He got $ 2,300 in exchange.
With this sum, he can feed his famille, mI also paid back the money he had borrowed in an attempt to flee the country after the arrival of the Taliban. “Most people are leaving the country because they are afraid for their lives or because they are looking for a job. And when these people cannot go to other countries, they go home and they have to return the money they borrowed “, reports Mir Ahmad, a resident of Qudoosabad.