Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting

                                                                    Promoting Ethical Practices in Medicine

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Reactions by the International Community

Actions speak louder than words.

 

  • Israel: The Knesset approved a new organ donation law in March 2008. The law determines, among other things, that brokering sales of organs, whether in Israel or overseas, is a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in jail. The new law followed unethical practices of an organ broker who mediated organs from China.
  • Taiwan: Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), the governmental authority in charge of mainland China affairs, announced it will prohibit Chinese transplant surgeons from visiting Taiwan from now on and will review their entry application case by case. This is in response to Chinese doctors soliciting business of organ transplants from Taiwanese patients with assistance of Taiwanese doctors.
  • Israel:  "Israel Arrests Men Who Mediated China Organ Transplants"
    Four men accused of pocketing millions of dollars that patients had paid for organ transplants in Asia were arrested in Israel August 2007. The arrests followed months of investigation after the main suspect admitted to an Israeli newspaper that the organs were coming from Chinese death row inmates and prisoners of conscience, including Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Israel: After several publications authored and initiated by Dr. Jacob Lavee a special hearing on the organ harvesting issue has been convened which resulted with an official condemnation of the Israeli Parliament of the atrocities in China. In addition the reimbursement of transplantation performed on Israelis in China (and countries which do not observe the ethical rules in organ donation) have been stopped.
  • Australia: "Hospitals ban Chinese surgeon training"
    Queensland's two major organ transplant hospitals have banned training Chinese surgeons because of concerns that China takes organs from executed prisoners.
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Hospitals-ban-Chinese-surgeon-training/2006/12/05/1165080933418.html
    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20876865-29277,00.html
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