For most of the Youth, the brand is the boss and everyone desires to have Signature products. Basically, everyone wants in, whether they can afford it or not. Yes, there are many ways to get one premium product by spending your savings or indulging in high stake burglary(not recommended). But if you read this story you come to know the extreme efforts of youth to get an Apple premium product iPhone 4 which disabled his life.
According to a Chinese media (Oriental Daily) report published this week, The now 24-year-old Chinese man, Xiao Wang, who sold one of his kidneys to the black market for organs in China just to be able to purchase an iPhone 4 back in 2011, his might be Wang’s ill fortune, the decision did not work out the way he would have anticipated. The report adds that the iPhone 4 which was launched back in 2011 when wang was only 17 and at that time, the premium phone was reportedly so desired among his teenage peers, whoever owns it will have a special treated than the other students.
Wang is one in those who thought in that way and decided to get an iPhone 4 badly enough, but realized that his family’s financial situation prevented it — then started looking into ways of scoring some extra cash to get one,and eventually he was informed about an underground operation where he could sell his kidney for cash.
From there he came to know that his Kidney fetched an estimated 22,000 Yuan (approximately Rs 223,300 )more than enough to buy an Apple iPhone 4. At that time he didn’t hesitate and sold his kidney where he also informed that he could lead a normal life after a week of recovery. However, what he did not know back then was that the operating environment was not sanitized properly, leading to infection on his wound.
“ Worse still, his parents were kept in the dark about this major operation and only found out when the teen became terribly sick from the infection.” the report mentioned
By the time young Xiao sought proper treatment at a reputable hospital, the function of his single kidney had deteriorated to such an extent that he’s not only spent most of his time over the past seven years in bed,and also his family was pushed into financial crisis due to expenses incurred for dialysis and other treatments.
The report stated that both the arbitrator and the illegal hospital which performed the process on Wang were brought to justice. Xiao’s family reportedly received “sufficient” monetary compensation from the court.
But all this didn’t make Xiao a healthy person he lost all his youth and dialysis is only expected to further complicate his ideas of leading a normal life.
