Taiwanese Doctor Expresses Concern Over China’s Organ Industry

A doctor said an order allegedly given from a hospital to a Chinese medical student is troubling.

A surgeon (L) performs an operation on a patient in the southwest Chinese city of Chongqing on Aug. 9, 2013. Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images

A Taiwanese doctor who is part of a medical ethics nonprofit has expressed concerns about China’s organ industry, especially regarding children.

Huang Shiwei, vice chairman of the medical ethics nonprofit Taiwan International Organ Transplant Care Association, told NTD’s Health 1+1 program that he was troubled by an alleged order that a hospital gave medical student Luo Shuaiyu.