Cambodia-Thai Kidney Trafficking Sparks Fears

Chhay, 18, hoped to save his family from debt by selling his kidney, but the seven-inch scar running across his left flank, a glaring reminder of the operation, only puts him to shame. He sold his kidney for (Dollar) 3,000 in an illicit deal that saw him whisked from a rickety one-room house on the outskirts of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to a gleaming hospital in the medical tourism hub of neighbouring Thailand. His shadowy journey, which went unnoticed ...