When someone in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi suffers brain death after an accident or illness, Qian Gongtao is among the first to know. Tipped off by doctors, he rushes to bereaved relatives at the deceased’s bedside.
But the white-coated Mr Qian is no physician. His government-issued card reads “organ donation facilitator”, a thousands-strong new profession created to address the country’s chronic shortage of organs for donation.
Just over 4,000 Chinese people donated organs in China last year, while 300,000 waited for transplants.
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