Royal College Of Surgeons Edinburgh
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Not since those ghastly 19th Century killers Burke and Hare has Scotland’s premier medical establishment been associated with grisly profits from corpses, not that these days Edinburgh’s Royal College of Surgeons (RCSE) is engaged in any criminal activity, or paying body-snatchers to secure ‘dissection material’. However this august institution is attracting concern as a consequence of one of its Fellows, Doctor Huang Jiefu, a former Chinese health minister, who has been accused of presiding over the removal of organs from executed prisoners without their consent. Report Here
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Just what was the RCSE thinking in honoring a man so worryingly linked with such medical atrocities? An individual who has seemingly conceded that “….as recently as November, 2012 that he continues to perform about two liver transplants every week – so that would be 100 organs a year, and using his own figures, 90 to 95 per cent of those would have come from executed prisoners.” Source
We think it is plain wrong that such a respected medical organization, with its ethical principles should choose to honor a man at the heart of a Regime with a notorious record for abusing human rights. If you share our concern then please consider directly contacting the RCSE.
PA to President: Moira Britton and Fiona Ramsay
Tel: (+44) 131 527 1635
Fax: (+44) 131 557 9771
Email: presidentpa@rcsed.ac.uk
