Transplants are big business. In China, a new heart costs up to $160,000, kidneys $60,000, a liver $30,000. And while the wait time for a kidney transplant in Canada is up to three years, in China the wait is one or two weeks. In 1999 there were 22 liver transplant centres in China — six years later there were 500. Kidney transplant centres tripled to 360 during that period. While transplanted organs from executed prisoners may be ending, it may well mean that Falun Gong dissidents will now be the main source for organs.
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