Illegal kidney trade

On 30th August 2011, a horrific news was published in The Daily Star entitled "3 arrested for 'trade in kidney'." As per the report, 42 people of Kalai upazila under Joypurhat district sold off their kidneys to organ trafficking networks because of severe poverty and police nabbed three intermediary people. A few years back, organ trafficking was largely seen as a rumor but now it thrives in our country.
This illegal trade is expanding because kidney is the only major organ that can be wholly transplanted with relatively fewer risks for the donor. Acute unemployment, abject poverty, and lack of education are the reasons behind human organ trafficking.
People must be made aware of this heinous organ trafficking business. And law enforcement agencies must be active to curb this illegal trade. A countrywide campaign against human organ trafficking should be launched immediately to save our poor people.