Voluntary Organ Donor Program Established

By staff reporter Liu Jingjing

(.com.cn) China launched a new national organ donation system managed by the Red Cross Society and the Health Ministry on August 25 aimed at curbing the informal organ market and easing organ shortages. By establishing China's first voluntary organ donor program, authorities hope to overhaul a system that now harvests the vast majority of its organs from the black-market and executed prisoners, while leaving millions who desperately require transplants hopeless.