Sopheon Mekton, managing director of the Thai Red Cross Organ Donation Center condemned a photo showing three people with bloody bandages on their stomachs who allegedly sold their kidneys to buy a new Apple iPhone 14.
Mekton warned people that organ trafficking is illegal in Thailand and condemned the circulating meme after it hit Thai social media.
“It’s illegal,” the managing director of the Thai Red Cross Organ Donation Center told the Times. “It is inappropriate to offer to sell organs, especially to get money to buy an iPhone. It’s morally wrong and unethical.”
The photo, which has already been deleted, allegedly came from a Vietnamese beauty clinic located in Laos.
Reportedly, in Laos the meme was mostly taken as a joke, but in Thailand, apparently, the photo was taken seriously.