Hong Kong sees surge in organ donation opt-outs.

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee has condemned the unusual rise in the number of withdrawal requests to the city’s organ donation system, saying that police would investigate suspicious cases. The city’s centralized organ donation registration system received nearly 5,800 withdrawal applications in the five months since December, when the government raised the possibility of establishing an organ transplant mutual assistance program with mainland China. More than half of the withdrawal applications were found to be invalid, either as duplicate applications or coming from people who had never opted in.