Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., said Tuesday that new whistleblower reports and alarming testimony have intensified a House probe into organ procurement organizations, telling Newsmax that lawmakers are uncovering widespread failures in an industry entrusted with safeguarding lifesaving donations.
The House Ways and Means Committee chair told Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight” that Congress is probing a growing list of failures in the nation’s organ procurement system, a push that came the same day lawmakers held a hearing titled “Lives at Stake: Holding Tax-Exempt Organ Procurement Organizations Accountable.”
Lawmakers heard testimony that detailed cancerous organs transplanted into patients, organs abandoned or discarded, and attempts to harvest organs from individuals who showed signs of life.
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