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Organ Transplant
Belgian doctors harvest high quality organs from euthanased patients
Michael Cook | 25 January 2011
A group of Belgian doctors are harvesting “high quality” organs from patients who have been euthanased. This is not a secret project, but one which they described openly at a conference organised by the Belgian Royal Medical Academy in December.
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