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China Plans To End Executed Prisoner Organ Donations Within 5 Years

Posted by timothy on from the have-you-considered-the-patch? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "China said that it planned to end the practice of taking organs from executed prisoners within five years, according to the state media report on Friday. Instead, China's vice minister of health Dr. Huang Jiefu said that the country will rely on a new national donation system for organ transplants at a conference in the city of Hangzhou on Thursday."

2 of 214 comments (clear)

  1. Impossibru1!11!!11 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Quit pulling my leg.

  2. Re:sure... by M0j0_j0j0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can't have enough of that foie gras.