Canadians pay $75,000 for kidney transplant in China

Posted on April 27, 2008
Filed Under Americas, Asia, humans |

In Canada, as many as 50 people are believed to have paid as much as $75,000 for a kidney transplant in China. The organs are believed to have been culled from executed Chinese prisoners.

Source: Tom Blackwell, “Canadians buy organs culled in executions,” National Post, May 6, 2006,(accessed: May 19, 2006).

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