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Organ donation gaining acceptance in China
By Cai Wenjun |
November 22, 2012, Thursday
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CHINA is expected to phase out its reliance on organs from executed prisoners in one or two years after an organ donation system is full swing, Vice Health Minister Huang Jiefu said in Guangzhou yesterday.
China passed an organ transplant law in 2007, which has greatly strengthened supervision of organ transplants. However the law failed to solve problems such as questionable sources, an acute shortage of organs, and illegal organ transactions, according to China News Service.
The organ donation system was established in 2010 by the Red Cross Society of China and has been tested since March 2010.
By September 30 this year, 38 hospitals involved in the trial had obtained 1,279 organs from 465 donors. Guangdong has the largest number, 100 donors out of the total, Huang said.
He said the trial is carried out with caution in only one tenth of the qualified hospitals in the country. The organ donation system will eventually replace the practice of taking organs from executed prisoners.
Each year about 1.5 million people join the waiting list for organ transplant in China, but only about 10,000 of them will get an organ, the health officials said.
China passed an organ transplant law in 2007, which has greatly strengthened supervision of organ transplants. However the law failed to solve problems such as questionable sources, an acute shortage of organs, and illegal organ transactions, according to China News Service.
The organ donation system was established in 2010 by the Red Cross Society of China and has been tested since March 2010.
By September 30 this year, 38 hospitals involved in the trial had obtained 1,279 organs from 465 donors. Guangdong has the largest number, 100 donors out of the total, Huang said.
He said the trial is carried out with caution in only one tenth of the qualified hospitals in the country. The organ donation system will eventually replace the practice of taking organs from executed prisoners.
Each year about 1.5 million people join the waiting list for organ transplant in China, but only about 10,000 of them will get an organ, the health officials said.
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