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Jan19
Tsunami Victims, Selling Kidneys and Relief Effort

For us, Tsunami is a forgotten matter. It happened on December 2004 and we are now in 2007. We just remember the day once a year. However, for the Tsunami victims in many parts of Asia, life is yet to become normal. Tsunami devastated the lives of millions of people and after the devastation the government agencies and voluntary agencies from around the world undertook a massive relief effort in all the Tsunami hit countries. May be, they did a good job and saved millions of families and helped them to rehabilitate in normal life again, However, for some people in India, the devastation of Tsunami still exists and some of them are selling their kidney just to save their lives.

 

This week, we saw a number of media reports about Tsunami victims selling their kidneys in India. BBC reported:

While analysts say that the rehabilitation of tsunami survivors has generally been satisfactory in Tamil Nadu, for some the pace has been relatively slow.

Displaced fishermen have been put up in temporary camps which in places are some distance from the sea.

That adds to their transportation costs and means they have less time in their vessels.

The construction of permanent houses closer to the coast line is way behind the schedule earlier announced by the government.

In some families, where the men folk have suffered permanent injuries from the tsunami, women are forced to bear the brunt of running the household. Many of these families say they are now in deep distress.

Now the women in these families are resorting to selling their kidneys.

A few have already done so, and others say they intend to follow suit.

 

 

Unfortunately, we live in a world in which human beings are losing compassion and sympathy for others. So, it hardly matters to anyone that many women are forced to sell their kidneys to just bring some food for their family. Indian officials are indeed too much busy with calculating high economic growth, FDI and SEZs. So, they do not have any time to do something about Tsunami victims except launching an inquiry about the reports.


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