MUMBAI: How can I sell my kidney? This question has been posed so often to Mohan Foundation, an NGO that works towards creating awareness about cadaveric donation of organs since 1997, that it has an official dedicated to tackle this “menace”.“Be it our Facebook page, our email or toll free numbers, quite a few people ask about selling their kidney,” said Mohan Foundation’s Dr Sunil Shroff.

“One person has to actively delete this question posted regularly on our social sites,” he said. Shroff believes that Indians joke so often about “having to sell their kidney” to buy some things that they actually believe it is a commodity to be sold. “It is sad that people don’t seem to realise selling kidneys or any organ is illegal,” he said. Few seem to know that the government amended the Transplant of Human Organs Act (THOA) in 2014 to punish anyone selling or buying organs with a fine of up to Rs 1 crore and imprisonment of up to 10 years. A simple internet search throws up hundreds of such queries from people…..Readmore