More organ transplant hospitals on the way in China
16-May-16, China Daily
China is to increase the number of organ transplant hospitals from 169 to about 300 by 2020, according to the chairman of the National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee.
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Huang Jiefu said the increase will enable the nation to become the world leader in terms of the number of lifesaving procedures performed.
In 2010, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Red Cross Society of China set up China's public organ donation system in an attempt to end long-term dependence on death row inmates as major organ donors for transplants.
By February, 6,238 Chinese citizens had donated organs after death, saving 16,827 patients, according to the Red Cross.