Kidney source "secret area" says Chinese transplant company

Bek Transplant
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This story originally broke in April when the British Transplantation Society claimed thousands of Chinese organs were being used without consent.

Back then, a foreign ministry official said: "Recently, the Chinese Ministry of Health introduced regulations on this matter. I feel puzzled about why the British organization [BTS] still issued such a report regardless of the fact. I want to remind this organization not to forget what happened in Britain several years ago. It was reported that some hospitals took away the organs of the deceased patients for other purposes, leaving their families totally in the dark. I suggest that you should also remind this organization," he told Chinese journalists.

BTS - consider yourself reminded.

But back to the organ transplants - Bek Transplant says it carries out 270 liver transplants a year using executed prisoners' livers and kidneys. Is this still going on, despite the Chinese government's denials?

Hong Kong Devil spoke to a Bek Transplant employee, who did not wish to be identified and would not give his name.
When asked about the situtaion with the transplant organs coming from executed prisoners wihout their permission, he said: "It has changed now," he said. I asked him where the organs were coming from now. "I don't know. It's a secret area. If I ask the doctors or surgeons, they won't say anything."

That's as much as he would say.

Have the Chinese Ministry of Health regulations come into effect? Are they policing the new rules? Because, at risk of having an organ removed for saying so, it appears nothing has actually been done.