China has denied a BBC report that it sells organs taken from executed prisoners. Of course, these organs are donated voluntarily as the prisoner about to be executed is asked whether he wants to atone for his crime by donating his organs to a sick person.
Since China executes at least 1770 people a year - most observers think the number of executions is considerably higher - , they could have a good supply of livers, hearts, etc. It is good business. The average liver transplant goes for almost $100,000. One hospital allegedly did 600 of these in 2005. That's a gross of $60,000,000.
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