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Doctors slam China's 'live' organ program

Started by Clark, November 20, 2011, 04:10:41 PM

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Clark

November 20, 2011, 04:10:41 PM
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=55918544-38fa-445d-8df1-e30886970ed9

Doctors slam China's 'live' organ program

Foreign patients who travel to China for transplants are likely receiving organs culled from political prisoners who are alive when their corneas, kidneys and livers are harvested, then left to die, an international group of doctors is warning.

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