ANHUI, CHINA: Selling kidneys for money is common, but how about selling kidney for an iPad...sounds weird, right?
The 17-year-old boy Zheng, at Huaishan, Anhui Province in China, has sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPad2, a thinner and faster version that features two cameras for video chat.
As per media reports, Zheng a young teenager got connected with a kidney-selling agent through the internet, who pledged to pay him 20,000 yuan ($3,084.45 ) for one of his kidneys.?
"I wanted to buy an iPad 2 but could not afford it, a broker contacted me on the Internet and said he could help me sell one kidney for 20,000 yuan, '' quoted Global Times, Zheng as saying.
The report added that he went to Chenzhou, Hunan Province to have his kidney removed under the supervision of three so-called middlemen, and received 22,000 yuan and? returned home with a laptop and an iPhone.
The hospital has denied any connection with the kidney removal operation, and has said that its urology department is contracted to a businessman in Fujian.
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