Conference On Organ Trafficking Endorsed
The World Medical Association and the Chinese Medical Association
are to hold a joint conference on medical ethics and human rights,
following reports of organs being taken from executed and living
prisoners in China. The historic meeting, which will focus on these
allegations, will be held in Beijing later this year or next year.
Plans for the conference were endorsed at a meeting of the WMA in
Montevideo today, Friday. It follows last month?s meeting between
WMA leaders and officials from the Chinese Medical Association,
when a joint statement was issued condemning as "illegal and
ethically completely unacceptable", the involuntary or forced
removal and sale of organs.
Dr Anders Milton, chairman of the WMA Council, said: "Today
the Chinese have vowed to work for the strengthening and upholding
of the law in China, so that if further allegations are made about
organ trafficking we can rely on the Chinese Medical Association
to try to rectify the situation."
Dr Milton said it was important to hold the conference in China
so that the right message could be promoted to China's 300,000
doctors. Invitations will also be sent to the seventeen members
of the Confederation of Medical Associations of Asia and Oceania.
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