The practice of transplant tourism is extremely dangerous, for both the recipient (the individual who is buying the receiving the organ transplant) and the seller (the individual who is having their organ removed). The recipient may contract a series of diseases from the donor, such as hepititas, HIV, infections and face the possibility of death. The donor also faces a series of risks such as infections and death.
In addition, recipients often return to their homeland experiencng kidney failure immediately. These recipients also carry diseases that become endemic within the area.
Poor and desperate people can earn between 3,000 to $15,000 for selling their organs, especially kidneys, to middlemen who re-sell them to wealthy buyers for as much as $200,000.
In this image, the scars of sellers are shown