China Harvests the Majority of Its Organs From Executed Prisoners

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http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/07/china-harvests-the-majority-of-its-organs-from-executed-prisoners/277959/

China Harvests the Majority of Its Organs From Executed Prisoners
This practice, done without consent, highlights the problems with the country's legitimate organ donation system.
YAQIU WANG

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Huang Jiefu, who served as vice minister of China's Ministry of Health for 12 years and was in charge of China's organ transplant development until stepping down in March, has admitted on various occasions that the majority of organs used for transplantation in China come from executed prisoners. A March 2012 article co-authored by Huang in a major medical journal, The Lancet, asserted that "65 percent of transplantation operations done in China use organs from deceased donors, over 90 percent of whom were executed prisoners." But the Chinese government has long held that the use of any organ from a prisoner only occurs after full consent from the prisoner, including families when appropriate.

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