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ABC: CHINESE USING PRISONER ORGANS FOR TRANSPLANTS.


Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency.
Associated Press (AP)

Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world.
 

Chinese military The Chinese Military could refer to two things:
  • Military of the People's Republic of China
  • Military of the Republic of China
 hospitals are using kidneys and other organs from executed criminals to perform transplants for foreigners willing to pay as much as $30,000, ABC-TV reported Wednesday.

Working undercover, producers from ABC's ``PrimeTime Live'' met with a Chinese doctor in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 who said he already had arranged for several transplants to Americans. He told the producers a new batch of kidneys would soon be available.

Captured on a hidden camera, the doctor asks for part of the $30,000 payment in advance.

A Chinese newspaper published in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 advertises ``kidney transplant in mainland China. Don't miss the opportunity,'' ABC ABC
 in full American Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928.
 said.

ABC also interviewed Apple Yoonuch, a woman from Bangkok who said she underwent a transplant at the Nanfung Military Hospital in China.

``Third of January, the doctor called me that there will be an execution,'' she said. ``It means that prisoners, some prisoners, are going to be shot dead. So I have to come over and prepare myself to get the operation, kidney operation.''

A press spokesman was unavailable at the Chinese Embassy in Washington on Wednesday, according to a phone message. An embassy statement issued to ABC said the organs of executed criminals are used in transplants rarely and only with the consent of the prisoners or their families.
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Date:Oct 16, 1997
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