The Gift of Life
CGTN Originals
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57m
The Gift of Life presents the new look and the challenges of China’s organ transplants since the country announced a ban on its controversial use of organs taken from executed prisoners as of January 1, 2015. It tells riveting human-interest stories inside hospitals across China; how families of organ donors struggle to make their final decisions, how patients suffering terminal diseases wait anxiously for a matched organ that has no due date to be found, and how doctors run against time to save lives.
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