The temperature is dropping to below zero in western Afghanistan and Delaram Rahmati is struggling to find food for her eight children.
It is not uncommon in Afghanistan to arrange the sale of a daughter into a future marriage but raise her at home until it is time for her to leave. However, as tdeepens, families are reporting that they are handing children over at an increasingly young age because they cannot afford to feed them. Rahmati sold her right kidney for 150,000 afghani . But her recovery from the operation has not been good and now, like her husband, she is also sick, with no money left to visit a doctor.
In the past five years about 250 official kidney transplants have taken place in the hospitals in Herat province, with a very limited number being a family member donating their organ, says Asif Kabir, a public health official in the province. The cost of a kidney transplant is 400,000 afghani, plus the price of the kidney, according to Kabir.
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