Organ Trafficking in Nepal

In this Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014 photo, Mohan Sapkota, who sold his Kidney, walks up a ladder in his house in Hokshe, a village of tiny farms and mud huts that has been the center of the illegal organ trade in Nepal for more than a decade. Sapkote travels nearly 50 kilometers (30 miles) to

In this Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014 photo, Mohan Sapkota, who sold his Kidney, walks up a ladder in his house in Hokshe, a village of tiny farms and mud huts that has been the center of the illegal organ trade in Nepal for more than a decade. Sapkote travels nearly 50 kilometers (30 miles) to the capital, Katmandu, every month to see a specialist for his legs, which constantly ache since he gave up a kidney in 1997. For more than a decade, human organ traffickers openly stalked his village, high in the mountains outside Katmandu, scouting for farmers and poor laborers to lure or dupe into giving up kidneys. Over the years, the village earned the nickname “the kidney bank.” (AP Photo/ Niranjan Shrestha)