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Hangzhou 0 China plans to end its controversial practice of using the organs of executed prisoners for transplants by around the middle of next year, a senior official told Reuters on Saturday.
China is the only country that still systematically takes organs from executed prisoners for use in transplant operations, a decades-long practice that has drawn widespread international criticism.
Beijing said in August it would begin to phase out the practice this month, and health officials have previously said China must stop using dead inmates' organs to "build a positive image that benefits the country".
SOURCE: news24
Read more at http://www.news24.com/World/News/China-to-end-use-of-prisoners-organs-for-transplants-20131102
China is the only country that still systematically takes organs from executed prisoners for use in transplant operations, a decades-long practice that has drawn widespread international criticism.
Beijing said in August it would begin to phase out the practice this month, and health officials have previously said China must stop using dead inmates' organs to "build a positive image that benefits the country".
SOURCE: news24
Read more at http://www.news24.com/World/News/China-to-end-use-of-prisoners-organs-for-transplants-20131102
