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Culture & Politics » soc.culture.china » ABC Online: PM - Report alleges Chinese Govt harvesting body organsof political prisoners
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ABC Online: PM - Report alleges Chinese Govt harvesting body organs of
political prisoners
Transcript
This is a transcript from PM. The program is broadcast around Australia
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PM - Report alleges Chinese Govt harvesting body organs of political
prisoners
[This is the print version of story
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1683142.htm]
PM - Monday, 10 July , 2006 18:26:00
Reporter: Michael Edwards
MARK COLVIN: Australia has one of the lowest rates of organ donation in
the developed world. The people who had kidney transplants in New South
Wales last year, for example, had waited an average of eight years for a
suitable organ.
That's the kind of pressure that's created the new phenomenon of
"transplant tourism", with patients going to countries like India and
China for their operations.
Last year an Australian report highlighted the rate of HIV/AIDS or
Hepatitis in patients who'd had such operations overseas.
Now a report from Canada says most of the organs in China are not
donated at all. They're taken from political prisoners who die after the
organs are literally harvested from them.
Transplant doctors in Australia are alarmed and are calling for more
Government controls on patients travelling to China.
Michael Edwards has this report.
MICHAEL EDWARDS: Much is made about China's booming economy. It's now
known as a manufacturer of electronics, cars and other high tech products.
But observers says there's one burgeoning market that's making them feel
queasy. This is the harvesting of human organs for transplant.
Chinese hearts, lungs, livers and corneas are in demand with western
patients frustrated with long waiting queues in their home countries. In
the years 1994 to 1999 the nation performed 19,000 transplants. Since
2000 this has skyrocketed to more than 60,000.
The new human rights report alleges the increase in organ availability
can be attributed to one fact: the execution of Falun Gong practitioners
detained by the Chinese Government, who are then quite literally
harvested for parts.
DAVID KILGOUR: We can explain about 18,000 of the total number of
transplants since 2000, in terms of things like prisoner executions and
brain dead people and volunteered donations, although those are very,
very small in the Chinese culture.
But there are about 41,500 that we think are in all likelihood coming
from live human beings who are basically killed on the spot, on demand
if you like, so that somebody from Australia or Canada or China can have
a new kidney. And this has got to be a new crime against humanity, for a
new century.
MICHAEL EDWARDS: David Kilgour is a former Canadian government minister.
He co-authored the report.
China began its crackdown on Falun Gong in 1999. Since then it's a known
fact thousands have been detained at detention camps across China known
as Lao Gai.
The report alleges some victims are given drugs to induce heart failure.
It also contains accounts of victims having their organs removed while
still alive.
The going rate for a Chinese heart is $US 150,000 and a lung will set
you back up to $170,000. Advertising is done via word of mouth and on
the internet.
DAVID KILGOUR: They literally say that, you come down here we've got,
one case says, we've got five or six young people, in their 40s, men,
hanging around. You can come down and kind of choose your victim.
MICHAEL EDWARDS: Australian transplant doctors estimate dozens, mostly
from the expatriate Chinese community, travel to China for operations
each year.
DAVID KILGOUR: The benefit of going to China is a speedy kidney
transplant, whereas in Australia it may be necessary to wait three or
four years to have a kidney transplant because we only have 200 organ
donors a year in Australia, for a population of 20 million. China has a
very much higher donation rate.
MICHAEL EDWARDS: Dr Daryl Wall is one of Australia's top transplant
surgeons. He works at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. He says
the practice of using political detainees for organ harvesting is well
known in the medical community.
DARYL WALL: We understand in international transplant associations, that
the expansion of capital punishment has contributed significantly to the
rate of organ donation in mainland China.
MICHAEL EDWARDS: So what would you be telling Australian patients?
DARYL WALL: We advise them to be patient and stay with the Australian
system for two reasons.
One is that we're not absolutely confident that the guidelines that we'd
apply would apply there, so that they may end up with less well matched
tissue which requires more immunosuppression, which is more harmful to
the recipient.
And there's also a concern about screening for diseases which may come
from the donor.
MICHAEL EDWARDS: Not to mention the human rights implications.
DARYL WALL: Absolutely. That's right. The strong view of the
International Transplantation Society is that organs can be donated by
strangers, they can be donated by friends, but it must be done in the
most ethical and defendable fashion.
MICHAEL EDWARDS: Dr Wall says the Australian Government should be doing
more to educate Australians about the real costs of Chinese transplants.
The Chinese Government has completely rejected the report, telling PM,
it's flawed, fabricated and completely unreliable.
MARK COLVIN: Michael Edwards with that report.
(c) 2006 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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