Corrupt Doctors

Because the black market for organs is booming-- as a result of high demand from other nations around the world, such as the United States and many countries in Europe--, doctors, ambulance drivers, and a number of other fields of professionals are completely corrupt and untrustworthy. This is perpetuating the problem of organ trafficking because, as long as there are fraudulent professionals who are willing to continue breaking the law, there will be organ trafficking. In places like China, when a person goes into surgery, they may or may not know that there is a huge chance that when they come out of anesthesia, they will be without one or more of their vital organs. Corrupt doctors have figured out that, if they can find a core group of professionals who are willing to work together and illicitly traffic organs, they can make thousands and thousands of dollars through the black market. 

According to the United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe, not only doctors, but mortuary workers and also ambulance drivers are in the picture, and they play huge roles in tracking down possible victims and illegal-donors. According to the United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC), finding children and people who are impoverished in situations where they are forced into selling their own organs is as normal as breathing, and they do this for a promised 15 to 20 thousand U.S. dollars. People who end up selling their organs normally receive about 5 thousand U.S. dollars or less (UNRIC). 

Because these doctors are so corrupt that they won’t stop their conning and telling of opulent lies, in order to maximize their profit, they pay the victim nearly nothing, as stated above, and they charge whoever the buyer is, around 30 thousand U.S. dollars. In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly launched a plan to end worldwide human trafficking, which includes organ trafficking, that has plagued the human race for generations. 

The UN plan emphasizes two key words: recognition, and recollection. The Assembly, in the plan, talks about needing to recognize the fact that poverty and gender-discrimination, along with a significant number of other things, contribute to the issue of human trafficking, and in turn, contribute to organ trafficking. The United Nations has also stated that there must be high regulations and stricter consequences for trafficking humans in any way, be they an actual human, or just an organ. According to a study that the United Nations did in 2009, the future holds grave consequences for people who traffic organs. The study talks about putting-into-place a system that will punish organ traffickers by “prohibiting financial gain from the human body or its parts,” (UN News Centre), and it proposes the three p’s: “Prevention, protection, and prosecution.”