The House Ways and Means Committee is demanding the New Jersey Organ and Tissue Sharing Network, or NJTO, explain itself after nearly a dozen whistleblowers accused the nonprofit of serious medical ethics violations including attempting to harvest organs from a person who was showing signs of life.
In a Wednesday letter to NJTO president and CEO Carolyn Welsh, committee Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., and Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chair David Schweikert, R-Ariz., outlined the allegations made against the organ procurement agency and requested documents and transcribed interviews with more than 30 employees and executives.
Following reports of widespread industry corruption, the House committee put out a public request for information in April. NJTO whistleblowers responded with allegations of organ harvesting without patient consent; improper organ allocation practices, including quid-pro-quo arrangements, that led to patient deaths; and document destruction and data manipulation.
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