A total of 24,112 organs have been donated in China over the past 4 years Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/19 21:05:11
Medical staff bow to the organ donor Li Hongyan before the organ procurement surgery in Shannan, southwest China s Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 22, 2018. File photo:Xinhua
A total of 24,112 organs have been donated by Chinese citizens after their deaths from January 2015 to December 2019, and the per-million population of organ donations have climbed from 2.01 in 2015 to 4.16 in 2019, according to a report from the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation.
The foundation released a report on organ transplantation development in China on Saturday. It said that deceased donations in China have reached 5,818 in 2019, and 19,454 operations for organ transplantation were made last year.