HONG KONG drug smuggler Poon Yuen-chung, 22, who was executed in Singapore yesterday, donated her kidneys and corneas to the territory.
'A transplant co-ordinator went to Singapore earlier this week to obtain the consent,' Hospital Authority spokesman Lai King-kwong said.
'Our guiding policy is that the donation must be voluntary and that there is no money payment involved. We will accept organs, even from criminals, if they meet this criteria.' Two other Hong Kong people, Tong Ching-man, 24, and Lam Cheuk-wang, 25, were among five criminals hanged at Changi prison.
Poon and Tong were cremated after a funeral service attended by relatives and friends.
The Christian pastor who conducted the service said the two women had become close friends in prison.
'Yuen-chung had written more than 40 letters during her last days to her parents, brother, sister and friends to tell them she had accepted her fate with calm and that she hoped to see them in the after-life,' the pastor said.
Human rights group, Amnesty International, said it was outraged by the execution.