China probes tourists' illegal organ transplants.Chinese officials will investigate whether 17 Japanese tourists received illegal organ transplants organ transplant: see transplantation, medical. , the 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. reported. The Japanese patients apparently were operated on after China banned the trade in human organs in May 2007. China will punish the doctors and medical institutions responsible, Deputy Minister of Health Huang Jiefu said. China has the second-highest number of transplants after the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , with 5,000 operations performed every year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. The China Daily newspaper, but it does not allow transplants for foreigners Foreigners alienage the condition of being an alien. androlepsy Law. the seizure of foreign subjects to enforce a claim for justice or other right against their nation. gypsyologist, gipsyologist Rare. because there is a severe shortage of organs for its own citizens. More than 1 million Chinese need transplants every year, but there are only about 10,000 donors. The underground organ trade in China has been a notorious supplier of organs to foreigners desperately in need of transplants, who make up as much as 40 percent of the market. Brokers regularly arrange transplants in weeks rather than the months or years it generally takes in the West. It is not clear how these Japanese patients received the transplants, the AP noted. |
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