Doctors in China are more likely to stay silent in the face of forced organ harvesting and other transplant abuses rather than speak out for victims, due to the tight grip of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the medical sector, according to a report.
The report, released by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China on Oct. 20, found that there were no independent safeguards against organ transplant abuses in China, because the country’s transplant oversight bodies, hospital ethics committees, organ procurement organizations, and professional associations all sit within the Party-state hierarchy.
The report is the first in a series examining various aspects of the transplant system that indicate state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting is potentially continuing, seven years after an independent people’s tribunal found the abuse had happened on a significant scale. …