Organ (non) donors in China

This frightful practice has been documented among ethnic Chinese communities throughout Asia, but so far all attempts to prove that people were leaving U.S. soil to buy organs from China's massive death row has failed.

Many patients are very forward and honest about it, that they bought an organ taken from an executed convict for about $10,000," "Most of the patients are delighted to be off of dialysis, and none has seemed particularly unsettled regarding the source of the organs.

There's no telling how many kidney buyers returning to the U.S. have gone for follow-up care at a less than adequate institution or stayed within covert medical channels recommended by their brokers.

Transplants are gifts that influence life from death, which close the door for

Executions often come in floods, usually around the holidays, according to the investigator's. This week, with the Labor Day celebrations that started May 1, is viewed by Chinese doctors as a particularly good time to get an organ, but there's no better time than the Lunar New Year. Seventy percent"of the hospitals performing the procedures are run by the military, which has the best connections to the penal system and can be present at executions. Money from patients purchasing organs is dispersed among those who provide access to the prisoner's body. Hospitals even pay judges to tip them off when they sentence a suitable donor to death. The money goes to officials all of the way up the line,It goes to the courts, the people in charge of the prisons. It goes to the doctors, the hospitals, everything."

.Executions in China have surged to 400 in April alone as the Communist government conducts another of its periodic "strike hard" crackdowns on crime. During the most recent campaign, in 1

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