
Uyghur Genocide: China faces Human Rights investigations over forced organ harvesting
By Ali Iqbal, Transplant Nephrologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine, McMaster University; and Aliya Khan, Clinical professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy for millions of patients and one of the greatest successes of modern medicine. However, a limited supply of donor organs, paired with a massive demand for transplants, has fueled the global organ trafficking industry which exploits poor, underprivileged and persecuted members of society as a source of organs to be purchased by wealthy transplant tourists. Although this practice occurs in many countries, the situation in China is particularly concerning. China is...
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