Investigation into Organ Harvesting Practices

organs harvested from patients that are still moving.

I heard that from a congressional hearing last week.

What can you tell us?

Yeah, I mean, it's a horror story.

And part of it is because of

the capture of the agency that was regulating ORR

had a, the board that was actually regulating organ harvesting

was overlapping with the contractor

that was actually harvesting the organs.

And it was done state by state.

Some of the states were just truly,

it was a nightmare.

And it was sickening to read these stories.

At one instance where a family was waiting

at the hospital for the body of their deceased relative,

the relative was brought to one of these private organ harvesting centers

awoke while they were harvesting her organs

and then was brought back to the hospital

and the fat where she died eventually.

But the family, you know, brought litigation

and that's the only reason that we learned of this

story. We did a, we've done a complete investigation of that company.

We've taken the contract away from that company

and we're reorganizing it so that we will be regulating it

and running it directly at HHS.

And this will never happen again.