Brain-dead boy's organs to be transplanted

Brain-dead boy's organs to be transplanted

TOKYO, Japan - Juntaro Ashikari, an official of the Japan Organ Transplant Network, speaks during a press conference at the health ministry in Tokyo on April 12, 2011, on planned transplantations of organs of a boy aged between 10 and 14 who was declared brain-dead with family consent for the first time in Japan the same day. The network is the only entity certified as an intermediary for organ transplants in Japan.

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