China faces a severe shortage of human organs for transplants, a report said yesterday.
The Hong Kong China News Agency said each year about 100,000 Chinese needed organ transplants, but the available supplies amounted to only two per cent of demand.
The agency did not say where mainland surgeons got the organs to meet some of the shortfall.
But Hubei's Tongji Medical University - the mainland's biggest and most advanced transplant clinic - had been struggling to find more donors.
The report conceded the lack of a nationwide donor network had made transplants even more difficult.
Foreign human rights groups have been critical of China's conduct concerning organ transplants, claiming organs were taken from executed prisoners. There have been reports prison guards have removed organs from prisoners without their families' consent.
