Heart and Organ Transplants in China
July 5, 2006 by Lei
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Heart transplants are relatively common in the UK and U.S. In countries like China and Japan, however, due to limitations in technology, cultural taboos, and the fear of people selling their organs, acceptance of organ transplants have been slow in coming. The China View reports that Chinese doctors have successfully transplanted the heart of a brain-dead patient for the first time in their country.
In China, a country that has long believed that death comes only after the heart stops beating and the body turns cold, at least 2 million patients need organ transplants each year, but only 20,000 such operations can be carried out because of the shortage of donated organs.
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