The Disappearing China Organ Transplantation Conference

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The Disappearing China Organ Transplantation Conference
Epoch Times
International organizations distance themselves from China’s transplantation regime
By Matthew Robertson

The month of June this year was to be one of celebration for the Chinese transplant community. An important conference was planned, the agenda of which was “to establish China as a model for the international standards now set forth by World Health Organization’s Guiding Principles and the Declaration of Istanbul,” the two global benchmarks for ethical organ transplant practice.
But there was no conference this June. And not a peep has been heard about the matter—not from China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission, which ostensibly oversees the country’s organ transplantation system, nor from The Transplantation Society (TTS), the international medical body that has for years worked with Chinese officials in an attempt to have them turn their system around from one of outright abuse into an ethical paragon for other countries.
Indeed, international transplant groups seem to have ceased high-profile cooperation with China, after TTS and the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group sent a public rebuke in February, pleading directly with the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, to clean up the corruption and abuses in the organ transplant industry.
The participation of the global transplant community was crucial for the proposed conference in June. Without them, it seems to have fizzled. There is no mention of the conference anywhere on the Chinese Internet, where such news is usually heavily trumpeted.
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