Fake Blood in China

Fake products are nothing new in China. Most of us have heard of fake liquor, fake cigarettes, fake medicine, fake television sets, and so on.

But fake blood? This has got to be one of the grossest accounts I have read so far.

In the book 百姓话题,当代名言 (China Wenlian Publishing House 1999), author Yi Ren (伊人, a pseudonym) noted that the director of a Heilongjiang medical college affiliated with a hospital (黑龙江省佳木斯市医学院附属医院输血科) had reportedly purchased blood for 2 RMB per ml.

Where was the blood purchased from? The city's maternity hospital.

And what blood was it? Blood from women who had just given birth. Or to be more exact, the waste blood ejected from women's wombs after they had delivered their babies.

The blood was then reportedly re-sold at 16 RMB per ml. Needless to say, many people died after being infused with such fake blood.

I can only think of the expression 丧尽天良 (utterly devoid of conscience) to describe heartless sub-humans like these.