(CNN) -- Five people in southern China have been charged with intentional injury after illegally buying one of the kidneys of a teenage boy, who used the money at least in part for an iPhone and an iPad, according to statemedia.

The five, including a surgeon, removed the organ in April 2011 from the 17-year-old high school student from China's Anhui province. The teenager is now suffering from renal insufficiency, Xinhua reported.

The boy's condition is deteriorating, it said.

One of the defendants, a man named He Wei, was described as "penniless and frustrated over gambling :debts" and allegedly "sought to make enormous earnings through illegal kidney trading," the news agency reported.

It said the men identified donors through online chat rooms and conducted the operation at a hospital.

A man named Song Zhongyu, a surgeon from a provincial hospital in Yunnan province, received nearly$35,000 in the deal, while the boy was given about $3,500, Xinhua said.

Wang later confessed to his mother when she confronted him about where he got the money for the Apple products, the news agency said.

According to China's Ministry of Health, about 1.5 million people in the country are in need of transplants, and yet only 10,000 transplants are performed each year, Xinhua reported.
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Welcome to 'Otokoto' booming business in China!

Callotti: Welcome to 'Otokoto' booming business in China!

but abeg who send am?

mkmyers45: but abeg who send am?

17 na minor na. Who would ethically purchase a kidney from a minor online? Kai.
That is unthinkable!

A man named Song Zhongyu, a surgeon from a provincial hospital in Yunnan province, received nearly$35,000 in the deal, while the boy was given about $3,500, Xinhua said.

Hmmmm! See wetin poverty dey cause?

Polarization is too large,
Poverty
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the young boy was totaly
stupid in his own path.

Na wah o! Chie dem don do my guy abrakadabra! Welcome to reality mr ching chung fool!

laodedRay: Na wah o! Chie dem don do my guy abrakadabra! Welcome to reality mr ching chung fool!

Lmao

Kidney Runz.

Chai the love of money ooo the root of all evilS. $3,500 minus $35,000 kiaaaaaaaa :

green tea: Polarization is too large,
Poverty
Poverty of the mind is more worst.
[img]http://www.spgames.info/g.gif[/img]

Deiok: the young boy was totaly
stupid in his own path.

Not stupidity.

there still poverty in china

[size=15pt]OMG! So fellow Nigerians, do not despair. Even citizens of a country like China could go as far as selling his Kidney. I remember reading a similar story last year and i think i even blogged about a Chinese kid who's having health problems after selling his Kidney for an iPhone.[/size]

Make him dey tap him iphone and ipad dey go. Nothing do am! Afterall every man must die one day. The only difference is that he sold his life and happiness for a mere $3,500. Money wey no reach some people to buy drinks for club for one night.

Sincerely poverty is the worst thing than can happen to any one. He would have spend the meager sum finish before realizing the damage he has done to himself.

Smh. Poor boy. Time to dance to the tune

Absurd

I think this is an old story. I saw around last year. Why must they change the date to make it look new? What a qualified journalist!

Beside this is a recycling of thread. Check this https://www.nairaland.com/909224/chinese-teen-sells-kidney-buy

Chai the love of money ooo the root of all evil.[img]http://www.demama.info/hjk[/img]

Abeg i won sell my own for BB POSCH. Any link?

@chrishenzo: though it be an old story, me thinks it's okay to repost to warn our young people if they will care to listen and consider.One once said, "take heed, beware of covetousness. For the life of man does not consist in the abundance of what one possesses". He also says, "what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his soul". The craze for faster computers, cars and all the other things people crave, blind people to the dangers they run until it is too late like this young man's case.

I DINT KNO A KIDNEY WAS WORTH AN I PHONE

The boy is willing to have iphone and ipad and he is very silly,but is different from some nigeria tribe who will pack their extended families and friends from villiage to indian and china to remove their human parts for money and later tell their parents that they are doing well in abroad,some people are evil.

Its very simple, since He has decided to sell his kidney for just $3,500, Then he should also sell his apple products for $3,600.
In that case he is a good businessboy

The boy is willing to have iphone and ipad and he is very silly,but is different from some nigeria tribe who will pack their extended families and friends from villiage to indian and china to remove their human parts for money and later tell their parents that they are doing well in abroad,some people are evil.

@ Babaowo
I smell some rat in that your post and if it eventually boomerangs, ME I NO DEY OOOOOO

aso ebi:

@ Babaowo
I smell some rat in that your post and if it eventually boomerangs, ME I NO DEY OOOOOO

.... Truth is bitter.

D news is 2old,gosh!

pls someone help with the formatting code for Nokia X2-01 to get rid of many stuff that came with the phone which I don't need. Thanks in advance.

Dat boy is an original fool and dumb dumb

Choi na wah oh... that boy is not only dumb he is stupid