Regulations on body donations too hard-hearted toward families
A RECENT CASE SHOWS the shortcomings in China's regulations on body donations for medical research. They need to show more consideration to the donors' families, China Daily reporter Li Yang comments:
After fighting leukemia for a decade, Yang Jiashan, a 30-year-old farmer from Junlian county, Sichuan province, became the first person in the county to volunteer to donate her body for medical research on March 29, 2016.
Yang said that by doing so she wanted to pay back society's assistance to her - she had received about 100,000 yuan ($14,480) in donations. She passed away one month later, leaving her widowed father, Yang Zhenggui, 66, living alone in their shabby home in a remote mountain hamlet. The family had exhausted all their savings to try and save the woman's life.
