Official: Economic Difficulties Have Driven Kidney Selling Prices up to 200 Million Tomans
The director of the Kidney Diseases Association of Kermanshah Province says “the currently approved price for buying a kidney is 80 million tomans,” but economic difficulties have caused people to be unwilling to sell at this price, and kidney selling prices have reached “150 to 200 million tomans.”
Hosein Biglari also stated that due to economic difficulties, “many individuals” in Iran are willing to sell their kidneys, but the main problem is that “almost all of our patients cannot afford the cost of buying a kidney,” and the government should help these people.
He simultaneously denied reports about “Iraqis buying kidneys from Iranian citizens,” but said “if a person wants to sell their kidney outside the country, the government cannot prevent that person from leaving.”
In recent days, reports about the sale of kidneys by some Iranian citizens in Iraq for dollars had been published.
TradingNews website, in publishing a report on this matter, wrote that “poverty and financial difficulties” have caused “some Iranians to go to Iraq to sell their kidneys at prices higher than in Iran.”
Source: Radio Farda
