英闻天下——574 China to Launch National Organ Donation Network

 　　A national organ donation network is set to be launched in China next month.

 

　　That's according to the Health Ministry¹ who have been operating a pilot donation scheme, along with the Red Cross Society of China, in 16 cities.

 

　　Vice² Health Minister Huang Jiefu says the scheme will officially begin after the Spring Festival.

 

　　"Right after the upcoming Spring Festival, China's Red Cross Society and Health Ministry will host a meeting to launch the campaign to encourage the public to voluntarily donate.

 

　　Organ donation in China hasn't literally³ started, it is only conducted in a pilot fashion. But it will be launched nationwide soon."

 

　　Currently organ donations in the country can only come from specigic government pilot schemes, consenting death prisoners, or the relatives of the patients themselves.

 

　　However annually⁴, out of 1 and a half million, the number of patients actually getting organs is under 1 percent.

 

　　At the same time, over 90 percent of the 6 hundred donors⁵ over the past 3 years, are said to have suffered from medical debt after making the donation.

 

　　Ji Yunsong, with the Zhejiang Provincial⁶ Red Cross, says the new national donation system will also tackle the issues faced by the donors.

 

　　"We'll provide the family of the donors with differentiated⁷ amount of compensation according to their conditions. Families with children and elder people will get an higher amount. But all of the compensation will be under 50 thousand yuan, because we don't want the public to think of it as an organ purchase."

 

　　However concerns have also been raised of doctors relaxing their treatment of those patients who have agreed to donate an organ.

 

　　To address these concerns, the national donation system will also reportedly set up an evaluation⁸ team, comprising of doctors specialising in different fields.

 

　　Their job will be to independently assess a patient's suitability to donate.

 

　　With the new system, the Chinese government also says it's hoping to phase out the dependence⁹ on death row prisoners for organs in the future.

1 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

2 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

3 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

4 annually   

adv.一年一次，每年

参考例句：

• Many migratory birds visit this lake annually.许多候鸟每年到这个湖上作短期逗留。
• They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。

5 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 provincial   

adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人

参考例句：

• City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
• Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。

7 differentiated   

区分，区别，辨别( differentiate的过去式和过去分词 )； 区别对待； 表明…间的差别，构成…间差别的特征

参考例句：

• The development of mouse kidney tubules requires two kinds of differentiated cells. 小鼠肾小管的发育需要有两种分化的细胞。
• In this enlargement, barley, alfalfa, and sugar beets can be differentiated. 在这张放大的照片上，大麦，苜蓿和甜菜都能被区分开。

8 evaluation   

n.估价，评价；赋值

参考例句：

• I attempted an honest evaluation of my own life.我试图如实地评价我自己的一生。
• The new scheme is still under evaluation.新方案还在评估阶段。

9 dependence   

n.依靠，依赖；信任，信赖；隶属

参考例句：

• Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
• He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。