Trading Kidneys for Cash
Thirty-year-old Jaya Kurnia, not his real name, recently felt a drastic change in his body. He is not as healthy as he used to be. He gets tired more easily and quickly. Routine physical activity can make him short of breath, as if he had just been running. "If I knew it would be like this, maybe I wouldn't have been willing to do it," said Jaya, interviewed at the Ibun district police headquarters last week.
Jaya's body started to act up after he underwent an operation to remove a kidney last December. Jaya can no longer drive a vehicle all day like he did before the operation. For years, he worked full-time as a bus driver on the Majalaya-Tegallega route in Bandung.
February 16, 2016
Thirty-year-old Jaya Kurnia, not his real name, recently felt a drastic change in his body. He is not as healthy as he used to be. He gets tired more easily and quickly. Routine physical activity can make him short of breath, as if he had just been running. "If I knew it would be like this, maybe I wouldn't have been willing to do it," said Jaya, interviewed at the Ibun district police headquarters last week.
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