iran's kidney market

Tags: iran, economics

Iran has the world’s only regulated kidney market

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2322914/
• demand for organs has always exceeded supply, especially due to diabetes and hypertension
• already appears to be booming in turkey, russia, and south africa
• Iran used to pay for its citizens to have transplants (mostly in united kingdom), but the costs balloooned for people with end stage renal diease
• illegal for anyone to have “middle men” in iran
• anecdotal stories of people “touring” their kidneys in iran
• currently (july 22nd, 2021) sells for 4600