The Epoch times is reporting that the long persecuted Falun Gong religious sect are being used as an organ bank for China’s thriving organ transplant industry.

According to some reports, 15,000 to 20,000 organ transplants are performed in China every year, including approximately 5,000 kidney transplants.

Advertising organ transplant matching and surgical services by Chinese hospitals has become much more prevalent recently, especially via the internet, with “clinics” promising waiting times of only one to two weeks for an organ.

How is this waiting time possible, while in countries such as the USA and Australia, kidney transplant waiting times are somewhere in the order of four to five years? Simple - live organ banks.

According to Dr Pang Yubin, reseacher at the U.S. National Institute of Health, and formerly of the Department of Clinical Oncology, Beijing University Hospital, the probability of a trasnplant match in china is 1.2%, meaning that the chances of any two people being compatible for organ transplantation between each other is just over one in one hundred. The only way that these transplant services can be offering such short waiting times is to have a large bank of live donors waiting for their organs to be harvested.

As the viability lifetime for an organ to be transplanted once the host body is deceased is somewhere in the vicinity of 24-48 hours, and freezing of organs is impossible, live organs banks is the only possible explanation for China’s flourishing organ transplant industry.

Reports are filtering out of China that transplant harvesting is taking place on conscious, alive Falun Gong prisoners.

I’m sure that we’ll be hearing more on this subject over the next few weeks. Keep an eye on the front page of therenalunit.com for your automatically gathered transplantation news updates.

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