Medical professionals and advocates are calling on their global transplantation societies to stop collaboration and ban transplant-related research papers from China, citing concerns over the human rights atrocity of forced organ harvesting.
The appeal followed a first-of-its-kind restriction issued by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), a nonprofit transplantation association. The group announced in late August that it would stop accepting organ transplantation research from China, in an effort to end the transplant abuse reportedly breeding under the oversight of the communist regime.
The team, led by British kidney transplant surgeon Dr. Adnan Sharif, welcomed the decision in an article published in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation on Sept. 22….