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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: transplants (fwd)
And, of course, there are American racketeers
who are understudies of such lucrative Chinese
customs.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://supremelaw.com
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> (EW)(PENTHOUSE) Highlights From the November Penthouse:
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> Chinese Takeout: Prisoners Executed to Become Organ Donors
>
> Entertainment Editors
>
> NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE) -- Sept. 24, 1997 -- The Chinese
>government is at the center of a lucrative organ industry, supplied
>by executed prisoners who are executed so that doctors may take their
>organs and transplant them into wealthy patients. The bizarre organ
>transplant system, which is run virtually along the lines of a modern
>business, is uncovered in an investigative report in the November
>issue of Penthouse. The magazine says China is systematically
>killing prisoners -- up to 3,000 a year -- and then selling their
>kidneys, corneas, hearts and other organs to high ranking Chinese
>civil servants or wealthy foreigners.
> Reporter Catherine Field quotes sources such as Human Rights
>Watch in her story. She says more than 100 Chinese hospitals are
>participating in the scheme, which is run by provincial or regional
>governments or the People's Liberation Army. They run clinics that
>charge $25,000 to $30,000 for the operation and aftercare. Doctors
>who refer patients to the scheme also are paid a fee. China has
>devised sophisticated systems to keep harvested organs in tiptop
>condition before they are transplanted. In the days before an
>execution, a prisoner's normally meager rations of rice and watery
>soup are replaced by good meals and the would-be donors get complete
>medical treatment.
> Reporter Field says that in Guangdong province, which has a
>growing number of big-spending foreign customers, "there have been
>three cases of prisoners who were still alive when put on the
>operating table."
> On one occasion, "a surgeon was removing a kidney from a
>patient -- a person who had been executed and proclaimed brain dead
>-- when the 'corpse' grabbed the doctor's arm." She says the source
>for the story was the doctor himself, "still traumatized several
>months after the incident." (Page 22, interview available with
>reporter Catherine Field)
>
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