The Ministry of Health of China has penalized three hospitals in the country by the illegal sale of human organs and for the provision of “services” related to his illegal transplants to foreign patients.
Chinese Vice Minister of Health Huang Jiefu, revealed the news during his speech at the Fourth National Symposium of the Transplantation Asian country, but did not say which hospital or which cities which doctors are involved in these activities.
The deputy minister explained that they were punished for “services” for illegal aliens such patients.
Huang cautioned that people who commit offenses in the future will lose their professional licenses, and recalled that these penalties are the first to be conducted following the guidelines of the Asian country on transplants.
In China, surgical transplants are allowed only if the organs are taken from deceased persons, or if made between members of the same family, though the shortage of organs has led to its illegal sale is a widespread practice in the country .
Therefore, companies have come illegally, through internet or other channels, allowing patients to hospitals and document forgery Notarised family to carry out interventions.
According to figures from the Ministry of Health, about 1.5 million people in China need transplants each year but the current system there is usually only available officially about 10,000 bodies during that period.
For the moment, there are only 164 medical centers authorized to do transplants in China and all of them will undergo screening to ensure they do not engage in malpractice, said Huang, who said that due to the shortage of available organs, no increase for now the number of centers.
La Opinion, November 2008, reading news