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To: aladin who wrote (110175)	4/19/2005 11:42:18 AM
From: aladin	Respond to of 793939

Top Guangzhou Hospital Does Roaring Trade in Executed Prisoner Organs HONG KONG, April 8, 2005 2005.03.31 HONG KONG—A top university hospital in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is carrying out a lucrative trade in liver transplants using organs harvested from executed convicts. The No. 1 and No. 3 Hospitals affiliated to the prestigious Sun Yat-sen University have a reputation for the highest success rate in kidney and liver transplant operations in the country, but their business thrives on a shady source—the organs of executed prisoners, which are often removed even before they are dead. Organs from the execution ground In an interview with Radio Free Asia's Mandarin service, nurse at the No. 3 Hospital said: "Mostly, yes," when asked if transplant organs were taken from the bodies of executed prisoners. Asked if the organs were removed from the bodies before death, she replied: "Of course they are." "They are living organs...very healthy," the nurse told RFA reporter Fang Yuan. Rights groups have long charged China with a deliberate policy of linking the criminal justice system and local hospitals in an attempt to meet growing demand for transplants since Chinese hospitals became proficient at them in the early 1990s. They also accuse the authorities of skipping over the question of consent, either with coerced agreements before the prisoner is executed, or simply by cremating the bodies of those executed so no evidence remains. 'We've been doing it like that for ages' Rest at: expertclick.com