Taiwan doctors have warned liver patients of the dangers of receiving liver transplants in China because the success rate is only 50%, two Taiwan newspapers said on Sunday.

The warning was made by two chief surgeons at a symposium Saturday on liver disease, the China Times and Liberty Times reported….

“Since the livers were hastily harvested from executed prisoners and the quality of surgery varies from hospital to hospital, the survival rate of Taiwan recipients is only 50%, compared to the 85% survival rate in Taiwan,” Lee and Cheng said.

“We heard that most of the livers were harvested from executed prisoners. From execution to cremation, there are only 20 minutes, so the livers were hastily harvested in dimly-lit ambulances. By the time the livers were transplanted, the livers have been without blood circulation for a long time and their quality has been affected,” China Times quoted Dr Cheng as saying….

International human rights groups have condemned the underground organ trade in China, especially harvested organs from prisoners even before they have stopped breathing. But Beijing has turned a blind eye to the practice because it brings in foreign currency for Chinese hospitals.

Let’s see . . . China — that would be the country that we approved for full membership in the WTO because we thought we could use that to “change” them. Much like a woman marries a man because she knows she can make him better. Does that ever really work?