Teenager sells kidney for iPad2

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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Chinese teenager Xiao Zheng sells kidney to buy iPad2

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 3:35 PM on 2nd June 2011

 Gadget crazy: Xiao Zheng, 17, sold his kidney for an iPad2

A teenager in China has caused an outcry after selling his kidney to buy an iPad2.

Xiao Zheng, 17, could not afford one of the new tablet-style computers that are seen as symbols of wealth in China.

But he answered an advert offering cash to healthy people willing to have one of their kidneys removed in a gruelling operation.

His action horrified his mother and has caused outrage in China.

The teenager told Shenzhen TV in the southern province of Guangdong: 'I wanted to buy an iPad2, but I didn't have the money.

'When I surfed the internet I found an advert posted online by an agent saying they were able to buy a kidney.'

Xiao travelled to the city of Chenzhou in Hunan Province where the kidney was removed at a local hospital.

Private surgeons had hired out a room at the facility to perform the risky procedure on April 28.

He was discharged after three days and given 20,000 yuan, or ?1,884, for the organ.

He bought an iPad2 and an iPhone but when he returned home his suspicious mother wanted to know where the goods had come from.

Xiao confessed to having the operation and showed her his enormous scar. He has since suffered medical complications.

'When he came back, he had a laptop and a new Apple handset,' his mother said.

'I wanted to know how he had got so much money and he finally confessed that he had sold one of his kidneys.'

Desperate: A Chinese teenager sold one of his kidneys so he could buy an iPad2, which are particularly sought after in China

Police were called but they could not trace any of the three men who had organised the operation.

The case has caused uproar in China with people complaining that materialism has destroyed morals in the young.

One commentator wrote, according to the Telegraph: 'This teenager's stupid behavior is a manifestation of his radically materialistic values.'

The iPad2 has been wildly popular in China with thousands of people cramming into shops to try to buy one.

Scuffles flared last month outside several Apple Stores in Beijing as people queued for the newly launched gadget.

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Chinese teenager sells his kidney so he can buy an iPad2

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 3:35 PM on 2nd June 2011

 Gadget crazy: Xiao Zheng, 17, sold his kidney for an iPad2

A teenager in China has caused an outcry after selling his kidney to buy an iPad2.

Xiao Zheng, 17, could not afford one of the new tablet-style computers that are seen as symbols of wealth in China.

But he answered an advert offering cash to healthy people willing to have one of their kidneys removed in a gruelling operation.

His action horrified his mother and has caused outrage in China.

The teenager told Shenzhen TV in the southern province of Guangdong: 'I wanted to buy an iPad2, but I didn't have the money.

'When I surfed the internet I found an advert posted online by an agent saying they were able to buy a kidney.'

Xiao travelled to the city of Chenzhou in Hunan Province where the kidney was removed at a local hospital.

Private surgeons had hired out a room at the facility to perform the risky procedure on April 28.

He was discharged after three days and given 20,000 yuan, or ?1,884, for the organ.

He bought an iPad2 and an iPhone but when he returned home his suspicious mother wanted to know where the goods had come from.

Xiao confessed to having the operation and showed her his enormous scar. He has since suffered medical complications.

'When he came back, he had a laptop and a new Apple handset,' his mother said.

'I wanted to know how he had got so much money and he finally confessed that he had sold one of his kidneys.'

Desperate: A Chinese teenager sold one of his kidneys so he could buy an iPad2, which are particularly sought after in China

Police were called but they could not trace any of the three men who had organised the operation.

The case has caused uproar in China with people complaining that materialism has destroyed morals in the young.

One commentator wrote, according to the Telegraph: 'This teenager's stupid behavior is a manifestation of his radically materialistic values.'

The iPad2 has been wildly popular in China with thousands of people cramming into shops to try to buy one.

Scuffles flared last month outside several Apple Stores in Beijing as people queued for the newly launched gadget.

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Chinese teen 'sells kidney' for iPad2

irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Friday, June 3, 2011, 13:32 An advertisement for Apple's iPad2 in front of an electronic shop in Tokyo. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

A 17-year-old boy in China sold his kidney to buy a computer and a phone, local media reported.

Shanghai Daily? said the teen, named only as Zheng, from the eastern Anhui Province got 22,000 yuan (€2,350) for selling one of his vital organs.

But it was a decision he soon came to regret as his health is deteriorating, Shenzhen Satellite TV said.

"I wanted to buy an iPad 2 but could not afford it," said Zheng. "A broker contacted me on the internet and said he could help me sell one kidney for 20,000 yuan."

On April 28th, Zheng went to Chenzhou City in neighboring Hunan Province to have the kidney removed in a surgery arranged by the broker.

His parents knew nothing about it, Zheng confirmed. He was paid 22,000 yuan after his right kidney was taken out at the Chenzhou No 198 Hospital.

When he returned home with an iPad 2 and an iPhone, his mother contacted the police. But they could not locate the broker and his phone was always off, the TV report said.

Hospital officials claimed they had no knowledge about Zheng's surgery because the department that was involved had been contracted out to a Fujian Province businessman.

The case is still under investigation, the report said.

Previously, it had been reported that many university students in Guangdong had decided to donate sperm in order to raise money to buy iPads and iPhones.

Local hospitals offer 300 yuan for each sperm donation and qualified donors attend hospital 10 times for each complete procedure.

Apple's iPad 2 sells for 3,688 yuan to 5,288 yuan and the iPhone for 3,999 yuan to 5,999 yuan in China.

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