Migrants lured by *** into Egypt?s backstreet kidney trade
 

LONDON: Brokers in Egypt’s underground trade in human body parts use prostitutes to tempt migrants to sell their kidneys as hospitals turn a blind eye to illicit dealing in donated organs for transplants, a report says.

Undocumented African migrants arriving in Cairo, desperate for cash, told the British Journal of Crimi**logy that *** workers were offered as a "sweetener" before or after removal of their organs.

"One pimp used the services of *** workers as leverage when negotiating fees with both sellers and buyers," the report said.

"A night with a *** worker was offered as an extra inducement to sell.

"Organ purchase is banned in Egypt, though the country is a common destination for transplant tourism, along with India, and Russia, according to separate research by Erasmus MC University Hospital Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

In April, images published on social media showed the badly scarred bodies of Somali migrants on an Egyptian beach, suggesting they had had organs *******.

In July, a British newspaper reported that African migrants were being killed for their organs in Egypt - a common transit country for migrants - if they could **t afford to pay off their people smugglers.

"The Egyptians come equipped to remove the organ and transport it in insulated bags," people smuggler **uredin Atta was quoted by Britain’s Times newspaper as telling investigators after his arrest.

The picture of organ trading in Egypt extends beyond the criminal underworld, with mainstream hospitals conducting transplants using kidneys procured through backstreet deals, according to Sean Columb, the report’s author.

Columb, a law lecturer at Liverpool University in Britain, spent weeks in the Egyptian capital interviewing brokers and do**rs, mostly from Sudan.

**body from Egypt’s Health Ministry was immediately available to comment on his findings.

While the buying of kidneys is banned in Egypt, it is **t illegal to pay for a transplant procedure, Columb’s report said, with some recipients paying up to $100,000 for a new organ.

Little data is available on the amount do**rs receive in Cairo, but one of the 13 sellers Columb spoke to said he was paid 40,000 Egyptian pounds for his kidney.

Deals were usually struck in a public place, such as a cafe, in the company of a broker and representative of a registered transplant laboratory, the report said.

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