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Guangdong

Body donation rules revised

Guangzhou has passed a regulation to allow body donors to bypass family consent requirements in the latest effort to alleviate a severe shortage of cadavers for study in China's medical schools. The regulation removes a provision that all direct relatives must consent before a donated body may be obtained, said Ouyang Binghui, vice-head of the Red Cross Society of Guangzhou. "The new rule states clearly that a donor can decide about his or her body," Ouyang said.