Would you swap one of yours for an iPad?

If you really, really must get your hands on an IPad I am sure there are easier ways to go about it than selling off your vital organs :

A 17-year-old student in Anhui Province sold one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan only to buy an iPad 2. Now, with his health getting worse, the boy is feeling regret but it is too late, the Global Times reported today.

“I wanted to buy an iPad 2 but could not afford it,” said the boy surnamed Zheng in Huaishan City. “A broker contacted me on the Internet and said he could help me sell one kidney for 20,000 yuan.”

At least he got paid for it unlike some of the other stories you read of people waking up sans organs.

The hospital itself sounds just like one of the NHS finest as they deny any knowledge of surgery having taken place :

He was paid 22,000 yuan after his right kidney was taken out at the Chenzhou No. 198 Hospital.

When he returned home, his mother found out and reported to the police immediately. But they could not locate the broker whose cell phone was always powered off, the report said.

It turned out that the Chenzhou No. 198 Hospital was not qualified to perform organ transplant. The hospital claimed they had no idea about Zheng’s surgery because the department that did the surgery had been contracted to a Fujian businessman.

I wonder if they bothered to ask the Fujian businessman what he was renting an operating theatre for or were they too busy counting the cash in the brown envelope?