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U.S. hospitals have been harvesting organs from patients who weren’t dead, according to a shocking new report from the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS reviewed 351 organ donation cases and found that nearly one-third of the patients—30%—showed signs of life at the time their organs were taken. These patients either had not yet died or still showed “neurological signs incompatible with organ donation.”
How do hospitals not know the difference between dead and alive!?
Federal rules require a five-minute observation period after death before organ removal, but the report confirms that this safeguard is being ignored, especially in smaller and rural hospitals.
HHS says it will now overhaul the national transplant system and improve oversight—but for now, the question remains: How many people were cut open before they died?