A baby diagnosed with kidney stones after being fed Sanlu milk food gets treatment at a hospital in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province on September 8, 2008.
Ministry of Health (MOH) Monday announcement more than doubled the earlier figure of 580 kids, who were diagnosed with kidney stones after being fed the adulterated Sanlu product.
Their number could rise further as the search for more infants fed Sanlu milk food spread across the country’s rural areas.
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Chinese Ministry of Health (MOH) has approved 164 hospitals on the mainland to perform organ transplant operations. The MOH has organized experts to evaluate existing hospitals that perform organ transplant, and 87 hospitals have passed the experts’ evaluation, Wang Yu, a department director of MOH, said.
At the same time, the MOH has designated 77 hospitals at provincial levels to perform organ transplant, Wang said.
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China’s Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday that from now on, Chinese patients would be given priority access to organ transplants over foreigners. This announcement, made on June 26, came as an addition to existing human organ transplant regulation which came into vigor on May 1.
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BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) — China’s Ministry of Health on Monday issued a provisional regulation on human organ transplants, explicitly banning the sale of organs and introducing a set of medical standards for organ transplants in an effort to guarantee medical safety and the health of patients.
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