Banning Transplant Tourism - Israeli Doctor Sets Example

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Transplant tourism has been banned in Israel since 2008 as a response to forced organ harvesting in China.
An Israeli professor, Jacob Lavee took part in the enactment of that law that prohibits Israeli citizens from getting organs in China for transplant surgeries. He is at a conference of the International Care Association of Organ Transplants in Taiwan sharing his experience.
Professor Jacob Lavee is a Director of the Heart Transplantation Unit at the Israeli Medical Center, Sheba, and the former president of Israel's Transplant Society. Lavee now serves on the Advisory Board of an American NGO "Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting."

[Prof. Jacob Lavee, Former President of Israel's Transplantation Society]:
"The way I got involved in all the forced organ harvesting in China was by a patient of mine back in 2005, who one day after a year of waiting in my department came to me and told me he is fed up waiting for a heart in Israel, and he was told by his insurance company to go to China in three weeks time to get a heart transplant ahead of time, and the patient actually went to China and got his heart on the very same day that he was promised ahead of time. So this set me researching, and I found out the whole gruesome story about the use of forced organ harvesting, and later on the fact that most of the organs in China are retrieved from Falun Gong practitioners, based on the research by Kilgour and Matas."

After the Chinese regime stared to persecute people who practice Falun Gong in 1999, China suddenly rose to be second in the world in the number of organ transplants within just five years. China does not have an effective national organ donation system and there was no explanation for the sources of the organs. Independent investigators have concluded mostly Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience in labor camps, detention centers and prisons are being used as a live organ bank and killed on demand.
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