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A victim's account

Mehdi needed a fake mother to dodge the law

Emran Hossain and Kongkon KARMAKER, back from Joypurhat
Since the law only allows a recipient to have organs from close kin,
organ traders sometimes use individuals posing as parents to establish relations between buyers and sellers
"I met her twice, may be thrice. She complained that she was being ill paid for such an important job,” said Mehdi Hasan, a resident of Bamongram in Joypurhat. He sold a lobe of his liver last year for Tk 1.45 lakh. The middle-aged woman told Mehdi that she had been paid a mere Tk 2,200 to pose as his mother.
The room in the building near Gulshan Wonderland where Mehdi met his "mother” had all the equipment required to make fake identification documents. "She was brought in twice or thrice until the documents were made," said Mehdi.
Mehdi sold the particular part of his liver, through pretending to be the nephew of Mir Giasuddin, the organ recipient in the capital's Kathalbagan.
Mehdi was "lucky” enough to see his "mother”. In most cases the brokers do not need to hire people to establish fake relationships.
Fake documents are mostly prepared by brokers, sometimes allegedly in cooperation with the hospital authorities and sometimes with the help of doctors.
The hundred people from Joypurhat who sold their kidneys had used fake identity documents. The media discovered in August that these people, all from Kalai upazila of the district, had sold their organs. This discovery in turn exposed a nexus involved in the illegal trade.
The Daily Star interviewed ten of those who had sold their organs.
Mehdi claimed there was collaboration between doctors and brokers in the sinister trade.
“When the fake documents were presented before a doctor, he pointed out some mistakes in them and asked the relatives of my rich recipient to have new documents prepared,” said Mehdi.
The doctor approved the second set of fake documents, said Mehdi, who then underwent his transplant
surgery at LabAid Specialised Hospital.
LabAid, which sought time to investigate Mehdi's transplant surgery, has repeatedly claimed that Mehdi's relationship with the recipient was absolutely authentic.
Saidul of Durgapur, Joypurhat, sold his kidney. He alleged that the documents regarding his fictitious relationship with the buyer were processed through the collaborative efforts of the hospital authorities and brokers.
"They do it only to keep the paperwork right,” observed Saidul, who underwent the transplant surgery at Apollo Hospital by posing as the brother of a recipient.
In some cases, rather than brokers preparing the false documents of the seller, it is the recipients who do the job.
Ainul, a middle-aged man from Borai, Joypurhat, sold his kidney for Tk 2 lakh to the wife of an income tax lawyer. The lawyer produced
the false documents, stating that Ainul was his wife's brother.
Ainul spent three months memorising the names of his “close kin”. “That was not a necessity at all. All the doctor asked me was my name and relationship with the patient," said Ainul, alleging that the doctors were fully aware of the deals being done.
None of the “donors” of Joypurhat, however, have ever faced proper verification and all of them have already forgotten the fake names they have used. They can only remember their fictitious brothers, aunts and sisters.
The process goes through so smoothly that in most cases all that the “donors”, mostly poor and illiterate people, have to do is affix their signatures or place a thumb print on a piece of paper.
In the organ trade, fake identity documents are always a crucial factor in the making of a “successful” sale and purchase.