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The black market for organs is quite active in China
Six people, including four doctors, had just been jailed in China for illegally harvesting organs from accident victims, Chinese media reported.
The group misled the families of the deceased by telling them that they legally donated the organs of their loved ones.
From 2017 to 2018, the liver and kidneys of 11 people were removed at a hospital in Anhui province.
China is experiencing a severe organ shortage and struggles to meet the needs of its population.
According to local sources, the organ trafficking line includes four doctors who work in the hospital’s organ purchasing department.
Local media reported that they were targeting car accident victims or brain hemorrhage patients at Hoai Vien District People’s Hospital, Anhui Province.
The head of the hospital’s emergency department, Mr. Duong To Tuan, approached the patient’s relatives and asked if they would agree to donate organs from their relatives. Then the family member will sign the consent form, but these forms are actually fake forms.
They then took the patient out of the hospital at midnight and then put him in a car that looked like an ambulance, where doctors took the patient’s organs.
According to local sources, members of the affiliated secret organ trafficking group sell the patient’s organs to other people or hospitals.
Finally, this group was discovered when the son of one of the patients became suspicious.
A few months after his mother’s death in 2018, Thi Tuong Lam verified the documents his family received when they agreed to donate the mother’s organs. It found many discrepancies, including the bank details of the application.
She later discovered that there were no records of her mother’s organ donation at the provincial government or at the China Organ Donation Center in Beijing.
He told the local Dazhongwang newspaper that when he asked Mr. Wang about this, Mr. Wang immediately asked him to receive a large sum of money to “preserve his mother’s organs.”
Image source, Child Photos
Before 2014, the organs of those sentenced to death accounted for two-thirds of transplanted organs, according to Chinese media estimates.
“That was when I was sure that something very strange was going on,” Mr. Shi said.
He quickly reported the news to authorities.
Six men from the organ trafficking line were convicted in July of “intentionally destroying corpses”.
This case is not known until after Mr. Thi told the local media.
For many years, China has taken organs from executed prisoners to meet the country’s need for organs. This practice has been widely criticized internationally.
China officially ended this practice in 2015, but officials at the time said it would be difficult to enforce it.
China now depends on the people to donate organs to the national organ bank.
The number of organ donors in China has increased in recent years, but it is still much lower than in many other parts of the world: only 4.4 people per million on average, compared to 49 in Spain. .
