Professor Wendy Rogers:
“There is credible evidence that Chinese prisoners of conscience are murdered on demand for their organs, in a process of reverse matching not practiced anywhere else in the world. In most countries with well regulated deceased donor programs, legally and ethically procured organs from a dying person are offered to recipients on the waiting list who are the best ‘˜match’ for the available organs. In China, this process is turned on its head. Wealthy recipients are matched against a large pool of prisoners, with the best matched prisoner scheduled for execution at the convenience of surgeon and recipient.” – Wendy Rogers, Professor of Clinical Ethics, and Deputy Director of the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics
Where do China’s transplant organs come from?
And why are waiting times so short?
According to data published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the average waiting period for organs in the U.S. is two years for a liver and three years for a kidney.
In China, the waiting period for these organs at some hospitals is calculated in weeks.
WHY? Because in China organs are REVERSE MATCHED.
What does this mean?
With voluntary citizen organ donation, recipients remain on a waiting list until an organ becomes available. After a donor dies suitable recipients are ethically matched based on need. Buying or selling organs is illegal.
In China, organs are for sale and a network exists including organ brokers who contact interested parties. Death row prisoners or prisoners of conscience are matched to the organ buyer from the databases within the prison and labour camp system. Within weeks the transplant is scheduled and doctors kill the “donor” by removing their vital organs.
Figures from China’s public record show a vast discrepancy between the number of death row prisoners executed and the number of transplants performed. Chinese authorities are unable to verify where thousands of transplant organs come from each year.