Chinese Reform: China has finally banned body-part sales and now requires permission from the donor to take their parts:
CHINA has finally issued long-awaited regulations on human organ transplants, explicitly banning the sale of body parts, requiring written permission from donors and introducing medical standards in an effort to reduce the number of botched operations and improve survival rates.
About 2 million patients in China need organ transplants each year but only 20,000 can be conducted because of a shortage of donated organs. More than 99 per cent of the 7000 to 8000 kidneys transplanted each year in China come from executed prisoners; the rest from patients' relatives or other donors.
If the sale of body parts is banned, perhaps there will be less incentive to steal said parts from prisoners.
"If the sale of body parts is banned, perhaps there will be less incentive to steal said parts from prisoners."
ReplyDeleteUhhh . . . why are doctors so dense when it comes to logic and econ? If you ban the sale of body parts, you will increase demand for body parts obtained thru other means--like stealing.
We have to get over ourselves and realize the need and benefits of a marked in body parts. Edward Becker an economist from U. Chicago recently calculated that a market clearing price of 12K (approx) would result from a free market in kidneys. Why is that bad? A lot of people want kidneys-- a lot want 12K. Let's make a deal!