Word: villivakkam
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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Over the past 15 years, India has become the world's largest reservoir of live kidney donors. In the 1980s the trade was centered in Bombay, but after a crackdown it spread to other areas, specifically the Madras suburb of Villivakkam, popularly known as ``Kidneyvakkam.'' Several thousand people living in abject poverty in Villivakkam have sold their kidneys. In a typical instance, Rani Saravanan said she had decided to have a kidney removed to obtain cash to feed her family and pay debts...
...result of the operations, says the Rev. Gerard Nelliyotukonam of the Don Bosco Social Service Society, hundreds of Villivakkam residents suffer abdominal pains, weakness and generally poor health. Says he: ``It is terrible that these people have to struggle to live by selling their body parts. Most waste the money on drink and shoddy goods and are soon teetering back on the verge of destitution anyway...
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