Illegal blood exchanges will only end when more people become donors

A NUMBER OF illegal blood exchanges have been unveiled in an undercover report based in the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, East China's Jiangsu province. Chinese Business View commented on Wednesday:

Although blood resources are in high demand in China, they are supposed to be untradeable. However, there are some who still manage to exploit loopholes in the system.

Due to the country's serious shortage of blood resources, hospitals are only allowed to use their blood stocks when a patient is dying, meaning that those in less critical conditions who require blood are supposed to turn to friends or relatives for blood donations.