Why Did China Announce a New Organ Donation System?
China claims to carry out ten thousand human organ transplants each year. But unlike the US and Europe, China has no national organ donation system. That’s been the subject of a lot of scrutiny: Where do the organs come from?
Well last month China’s Ministry of Health announced a new program. It’s called “Management for the Acquisition and Allocation of Organs.” Supposedly, it’s meant to set up a national distribution system for organs.
But there’s more to this than meets the eye—including numbers that don’t add up, and behind it all, deeply hidden political maneuvering.
