Are Organ Donors “Death Row” Prisoners?
If the donor organs indeed come from prisoners on death row, then their organs could only be used in hospitals near the execution grounds. According to statistics published by Amnesty International, about 2,000 prisoners are executed in China each year. Sometimes the highest estimate might reach 10,000 each year. How many people were sentenced to death and executed in the Shenyang area each year? Were all of them willing to donate their organs? The hospitals in the Shenyang area have always claimed that the organs they use for transplants come from young people. Are all death row inmates young? Would the execution always coincide with the short time frame within which the transplants must be performed and coincide with the need for donor and recipient tissue matching? Medically speaking, the match rate between close relatives is about 50 0.000000or live kidney transplants. For kidney transplants, the tissue match rate between a recipient and an unrelated donor is between 1% and 2%. Bas
