Baroness Sheehan (LD) [V]:...On the issue of C-TAP, the waiver
requested by South Africa and India at the TRIPS council meeting
speaks to the need to have some way of overcoming the issues in
respect of sharing IP rights, data, know-how and the expertise that
is lacking at the moment. They would not be asking for that and
would not be pushing for it unless it was necessary. Without that,
we will not immediately be able to ramp up manufacture of the
vaccine when we need it, which will be...Request free trial
(LD)
[V]:...On the issue of C-TAP, the waiver requested by South Africa
and India at the TRIPS council
meeting speaks to the need to have some way of overcoming the
issues in respect of sharing IP rights, data, know-how and the
expertise that is lacking at the moment. They would not be asking
for that and would not be pushing for it unless it was necessary.
Without that, we will not immediately be able to ramp up
manufacture of the vaccine when we need it, which will be
immediately...
(Con) [V]:...Advice that I have received
from the Royal College of Surgeons notes that, sadly, the issue of
UK patients travelling overseas for transplant surgery is not
confined to China and is known to occur also in Pakistan and
India. A considerable number of UK patients have
undergone kidney transplantation from living donors in this way.
For the report mentioned by the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, Sir
Geoffrey Nice met with the Royal College of Surgeons to discuss the
allegations relating to China. It found the allegations alarming
and the evidence concerning. We know that, in China, patients can
receive organs within a matter of weeks. Heart transplant surgery
can be bought in advance and, according to data collected by the
China Liver Transplant Registry, the percentage of emergency,
compared to non-emergency, liver transplants is far higher than one
would expect. During his investigation, the BBC journalist Matthew
Hill was offered a liver for $100,000 by a Chinese hospital, at
very short notice. Patients in the UK would struggle to achieve
this with a waiting time of several months...
(LD)
[V]:...The noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, the noble Lords, and Lord Alton, and others have laid out, in appalling
terms, the concerns that exist about organ harvesting, particularly
in China, but which is known elsewhere as well, as the noble Lord,
, just mentioned, particularly where poverty has
often driven unethical use of organs. There have been
recent reports from Egypt, and there were persistent reports
from India for example...
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