Poverty-struck Jordanians sell organs Ali, a 30-year-old Jordanian father of three, was without a job and desperate. A friend convinced him that selling one of his kidneys could improve conditions for his family and also save someone’s life. So he flew to Egypt earlier this year, had a kidney removed, and was paid 5,000 dollars. But it was a Faustian bargain. “I regret it with all my heart. I don’t know what I was thinking,” Ali told AFP. “I got all 5,000 dollars after I donated the kidney, but I did not see or know the person I gave my kidney to. Now I know I made a bad mistake out of ignorance. I don’t have a job, and poverty and hard conditions blinded me to what I was doing.”
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