The Sunday Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper revealed...

The Sunday Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper revealed that executed prisoners' organs were offered to Hong Kong patients at Guangdong's main transplant hospital for up to $300,000 each. The Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences, the No. 1 hospital, was charging $38,500 per transplant. It said more than 40 patients from mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand had received transplants. A doctor at the hospital in the southern city of Guangzhou was quoted as saying numbers of livers available will soon increase because China executes more prisoners around the Lunar new year, which was February 5, 2000. "Most organs are from prisoners. Prisoners are good because they are young. We have a good network. Most of the livers will be sent to us," said the doctor, who wasn't identified by name. Beijing consistently denies selling organs, and said they are transplanted from executed prisoners only if they or their families consent. About 80 percent of the transplant fee pays for drugs to prevent the immune system from rejecting the new organ. Dr Lo Chung-Man of the liver-transplant team at the University of Hong Kong said his team would never recommend a transplant in China. "We do not accept their practice. We have doubts about the sources of the organs," he told the newspaper.