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 g- 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 organ,

organ harve- harvesting centers,

uh, awoke while they were harvesting her organs,

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

fa- 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