illegal organ trading

Chinese authorities may be changing their approach to reports of organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, now attempting to deny the evidence rather than simply ignore it.

The extremely short waiting time for organ transplants has made China the most popular country for transplantation tourism, in which patients from other countries travel to China for organ transplant surgeries. The average waiting time for a patient in the United States to receive a matched kidney is four to five years, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in March.