The health ministry is renewing its call to establish an organ donation system to save more patients from dying while they wait for transplants. An estimated two million Chinese need organ transplants each year, but only 20,000 operations are performed... ...full story at People's Daily
from People's Daily on Fri, Jun 05 2009
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