Bartering away vital organs in exchange for smartphones is illegal, a health official warned yesterday in response to a jokey photo spreading across social media.
Responding to online unease over viral marketing that suggested new iPhones could be obtained with a kidney, a doctor with the Red Cross condemned its “misleading” message – just in case anyone was getting any ideas.
“There is no organ trading like this. It’s prohibited,” Sophon Mekthon of the Thai Red Cross Organ Donation Center. “It’s inappropriate that organ trading is promoted, especially to exchange one for money to buy an iPhone. It’s immoral and unethical.”
Selling body parts for shiny new iPhone 14s became an actual topic after a beauty clinic in Laos published an image of three people holding up new phones while displaying blood-soaked and bandaged belly wounds that looked…
