The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently reversed its past denials and acknowledged that the administration of organ transplants inside China is unregulated. Many doctors have made huge illegal profits from transplanting the organs of executed prisoners. Analysts believe that faced with the growing international pressure on investigating the organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners, the CCP is attempting to dodge international condemnation with “frank acknowledgement” and “lawmaking.” By these actions, the CCP hopes to reduce international attention on its morally corrupt practices and eliminate any obstacles for obtaining sponsorship for the 2008 Olympics.
Acting Out Of Normal To Make Acknowledgement
According to an official Chinese media report, Huang Jiefu, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Health, speaking at the National Organ Transplant Application Technology Conference held in Guangzhou on November 14, frankly acknowledged that regulation of organ transplants inside China is chaotic. Many profit-seeking doctors have taken advantage of foreign visitors and marketed organs at very high prices.
Huang indicated that the majority of the transplanted organs come from executed prisoners. The ones committing the crimes, according to Huang, are the surgeons and not the government. He emphasized that the CCP will strengthen government regulation of organ transplants. Tightened regulatory requirements will include reinforcement of the censorship of transplant hospitals, strictly prohibit organ trade and “organ transplant tourism.”
International news agencies have noted that this is the first time that the CCP has openly admitted using organs from executed prisoners for transplant and that there are serious problems regarding the regulation of the organ trade in China. Yet just a month ago, on October 10, the CCP Ministry of Health still denied the organ trade in China. The CCP at that time claimed that the majority of the organs used for transplant had come from volunteer donors. The CCP had accused the BBC, the Australian Sky News and other international news agencies of spreading lies.
Why within one month the CCP could have such a dramatic change in its attitude regarding organ transplant?
