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Organ Trafficking: How Germans Buy New Kidneys in Kenya - DER SPIEGEL

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The shock. That is perhaps the best place to start. The realization that time had run out. For her kidney and for life as she had known it. The letter arrived on May 23, 2022, and it marked the end of the almost 30 years she had lived with her first donor kidney. The envelope contained the results of a blood test. Her creatinine value was 3.6, far above the norm of around 1. She knew then that the organ wouldn’t last much longer. Sabine Fischer-Kugler hung on for another year, as she recalls – drinking less and consuming less protein and potassium. Then, her doctor called with new test results. Her creatinine level was now over 6. The doctor told her to get ready and the taxi arrived half an hour later to take her to the place she had never wanted to return: the dialysis station. Three times a week, five hours each time. For several years, most likely – as long as it would take to slowly climb the long waiting list in Germany of thousands of people waiting for a new kidney, growing wea

image"> Bild vergrößern Photos of Sabine Fischer-Kugler in the Mediheal clinic in Eldoret, Kenya [M] DER SPIEGEL; Foto: Maria Bayer / DER SPIEGEL Zur Merkliste hinzufügen X.com Facebook E-Mail Link kopieren Weitere Optionen zum Teilen X.com Facebook E-Mail Messenger WhatsApp Link kopieren SPIEGEL bei Google bevorzugen The shock. That is perhaps the best place to start. The realization that time had run out. For her kidney and for life as she had known it. The letter arrived on May 23, 2022, and it marked the end of the almost 30 years she had lived with her first donor kidney. The envelope con

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