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, it's a horror story.

And, uh,

uh, part of it is because of the

capture of the c- 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, uh, it

was done state by state. Some of the states were

just truly, it was a, a nightmare.

And it was sickening to read these stories.

They had 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 org- organ harv- harvesting centers,

uh, awoke while they were harvesting her

organs, and then, uh, was brought back to the hospital

in the pa- where she died eventually.

Uh, but the family, you know, brought litigation, and that's the only

reason that we learned of this story.

We, we did a, we've done a, a complete investigation

of that company. Uh, 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.