Blessed Malfunction

"She can't donate Kidney", my wife shouted. She was just talking with Majid's wife in the phone. I met with Majid in a NGO managing Kidney transplant in Iran; he had donated one of his kidneys just two months ago. He says he did this because he thought he was saving a life. Majid is a skilled construction worker but since last year things got dull and he tried a more encouraging and promising carrier. He decides to open a Kebob eatery. Majid worked hard and passionately but after 9 months he realized that he is in debt for 12 thousands Tuman (Tuman=$0.01). No choice left. There is no one that he can borrow money from and the state supported bank loans do not cover such categories and are a complex and far reaching goals. One needs to process a long bureaucratic labyrinth, which is almost a dead end and a vain attempt if you know no one, in particular; finding two qualified persons who can -and of course want to- guarantee you. He is a man of honor and he most come up with his pledge. He has heard from TV and Radio about a NGO which involves with the kidney stuff and has heard he can donate one of his kidneys, while that will not harm his own health. He even believes that the one kidney left will accordingly be larger in size and more active in function. In return he may gain considerable amount money to pay back his debts. Although, naming this money is a taboo officially, "Selling kidney" idea has found its way to colloquial literature, exemplifying the final choice for the one who needs money and has no alternatives. Two months has passed. Majid is back to his normal life, even though he himself opened his tens of stitches personally, avoiding some more hospital bills. But, generally he has an acceptable condition. He is only advised to avoid cold and heavy lift.
And now, the rest of the story. Why then still he is wandering in the NGO? The so called compensation payment only covered half of his debts, and he still owes a lot to a number of people. So what now? Must another kidney be sold? But he got only one and this time his 23 years old wife must do the job. She does not agree for many reasons obviously, mainly because she was told that she can not bear a child any more. Tough arguments took place and she even received some beats. I visited them with my wife in their little room in North West of Tehran. My wife insisted to help them by selling some of our belongings. But there are 2000 kidney donators each year and most of them do that for money. How can we save all of them? At last Majid's wife has started preliminary tests for transplanting her kidney. No one of the relatives and friend knows and should ever know about this. The process occurs swiftly. Husband and wife planned to reason wife's hospitalization to relatives and friends, an appendicitis case. The next week -if the entire test results positively- she will be operated and….
Wait! The test results were not satisfactory, some parts of her body showed abnormal functioning. So, she was not able to DONATE one of her kidney.