Britons Warned Over Chinese Organ Transplant Harvesting
by Staff Writers
London (AFP)
Potential transplant patients in Britain were urged Wednesday to think
twice about going to China for their operation due to a real risk that
they may be getting the harvested organ of a freshly executed convict.
In a statement, the British Transplantation Society said there was "an
accumulating body of evidence" to suggest that organs from executed
Chinese prisoners were being removed -- without consent -- for
transplantation.
"This process of organ procurement and the subsequent transplants are
known to involve payment of money and may implicate transplant centres,
patients and the authorities and judiciary responsible for the
prisoners," it said.
While the exact number of such transplants is not known, "the figure is
thought to be in the thousands," it said.
It branded the practice "unethical ... an unacceptable practice (and) a
breach of human rights".
It added that, given "worldwide shortages of ethically acceptable
organs, any act that risks calling the practice of transplantation into
disrepute is to be regretted".
Concern that China -- first in the world in capital punishment, with at
least 3,400 executions last year alone, according to Amnesty
International -- is using the dead convicts as organ donors goes back
many years.
In a major report 12 years ago, Human Rights Watch said up to 3,000
organs, mainly kidneys and corneas, were being taken from executed
prisoners every year, with government officials reportedly enjoying
priority for operations.
Last month Beijing announced it would ban the growing trade in human
organs, amid domestic pressure to regulate the chaotic industry and
reports that Japanese and Malaysians had died from botched transplants.
Its health ministry issued regulations to go into effect on July 1
banning the purchase and sale of organs, while also introducing a set
of medical standards for transplants.
In a phone interview with AFP, Stephen Wigmore, chairman of the British
Transplantation Society's ethics committee, said the group decided to
take a stand in light of the number of Britons enquiring about
transplants in China.
"Increasingly, patients from the UK are looking towards China as a
source of potential organs for transplants," he said.
"We wanted to make both the medical profession and patients aware in
the UK that there are some moral and ethnical dilemmas which may not be
evident" from websites which offer to help arrange transplants in
China.
One such website, www.en.zoukiishoku.com, offers kidney transplants for
62,000 dollars (50,000 euros) and heart transplants for up to 160,000
dollars. It does not say where the organs come from.
Wigmore recalled that, typically, a liver must be transplanted within
12 hours of a donor's death, and a kidney in 24 to 36 hours.
"It almost sounds as though the timing of an execution is at the
convenience of the timing of a transplant," he said.
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Hu is an excellent match sir and he is a Christian!
Practise Christianity wirthout permission? Death penality, might as
well use your body parts as well no sense wasting them.
And we in the west go how terrible, meanwhile our societies kills the
unborn and or hack the unborn for stem cells and whatever else that can
be vampired out of that life.
End times
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