WOIPFG’s 2019 Comprehensive Investigation Results regarding the Chinese Communist Party’s Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Dafa Practitioners
Foreword
In 2019, World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) continued investigating hospitals, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals suspected of live organ harvesting from Falun Dafa (aka Falun Gong) practitioners in mainland China. A large quantity of evidence has been obtained, revealing more details of the shady “business” of live organ harvesting.
The main subjects of WOIPFG’s 2019 investigation are the 178-tertiary level-A hospitals with the qualification to perform organ transplantation. The emphasis was on the hospitals, which are suspected of carrying out large volumes of live organ harvesting, as well as highly suspicious work units and the people in charge.
So far, in mainland China, organ transplants (primarily liver and kidney transplants) have been carried out in all provinces, autonomous administrative regions and central government-controlled municipalities, except the Tibet Autonomous Region. Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Zhengzhou are still the cities with the largest organ transplant volumes, while the organ transplant business in Hainan Province, Shenzhen, Urumqi and Kunming are expanding rapidly.
The hospitals continue to use the organs from so-called “voluntary brain-dead organ donors” to perform a massive number of organ transplant operations. However, the process of organ procurement is completely opaque with black box operations. All hospitals have claimed in unison that no organs were from prisoners or the judicial systems; their sole organ sources were hospital-based voluntary brain-dead donors; and organ wait times ranged from a couple of days to a couple of weeks or several months. Also, if a patient demands to select an organ or to have an early surgery, he or she would be required to have a face-to-face meeting with the director of the organ transplant center by registering with the latter’s outpatient clinic.
The Red Cross Society’s organ donation witness procedure has been rendered useless and is only a formality. The Red Cross Society has essentially done nothing in supervising organ donations. Even worse, they may have joined hands with the hospitals’organ Procurement Organizations (OPO) in illegally obtaining organs.
A variety of evidence from WOIPFG’s 2019 investigation indicates that the Chinese Communist Party has never ceased harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.
This report presents 200 recorded phone investigation conversations from more than 100 hospitals and organ transplant centers. The people investigated include hospital presidents, communist party committee secretaries, organ transplant department directors, chief surgeons, professors and organ transplant ward nurses. They are all participants and witnesses of the organ transplants from living Falun Gong practitioners.
The audio recordings and Translations of the 200 telephone investigations are organized chronologically for the convenience of the readers.
In order to better facilitate information sharing, we strive to present the contents in a terse and concise manner. We’ve made summaries of the 200 telephone investigation recordings, which are classified into nine categories and organized chronologically according to the time of investigation
1. Wait time
Wait times are usually one to two days, one to two weeks, or several months. Regarding wait times for transplant surgeries, the investigation subjects---presidents, directors, surgeons, and nurses usually replied: If you are lucky, you can have it done in one or two days, or one or two weeks. If you are unlucky, you may have to wait several months. Regarding wait times, we selected 52 cases from 200 telephone investigation calls. Translations of the investigation recordings are as follows:
Investigation Recording 2019-001
Date: February 21, 2019 (+86-57455836149)
Subject(s) of Investigation: Doctor, Liver Transplant, East Division, Ningbo Medical Center LiHuili Hospital
Summary: Many Type B patients wait in line for about two to three months. If you are determined and lucky, your wait may be just a few weeks.
(Recording 001. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 001)
Investigation Recording 2019-008
Date: February 26, 2019（+86-371-67077358）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Zhengzhou People’s Hospital
Summary: Approximately, the wait time is within one month.
(Recording 008. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 008)
Investigation Recording 2019-012
Date: March 7, 2019（+86-10-85231504）
Subject(s): A Doctor, Liver Transplant, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital
Summary: It takes about one or two days in quick cases, but it may take half a month in other cases. It won’t take long.
(Recording 012. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 012)
Investigation Recording 2019-014
Date: March 8, 2019（+86-57455836149）
Subject(s) of Investigation: Doctor, Liver Transplant, East Division, Ningbo Medical Center LiHuili Hospital
Summary: In fast cases, it would be slightly over one month if you are lucky. But it could be two, three or four months, if you are not so lucky.
(Recording 014. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 014)
Investigation Recording 2019-015
Date: March 8, 2019（+86-1057976858）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Armed Police General Hospital
Summary: The wait time won’t be too long, and it can be done in one or two months.
(Recording 015. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 015)
Investigation Recording 2019-018
Date: March 12, 2019 (+86-551-62922816)
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplantation Inpatients Unit, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University
Summary: The shortest wait time for a liver transplant is one week or 15 days.
(Recording 018. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 018)
Investigation Recording 2019-019
Date: March 13, 2019 (+86-22-23626857)
Subject (s): Doctor Li and Director Guo Qingjun, Liver Transplant, Tianjin First Central Hospital
Summary: The wait time may be a month at most, may be a week at least. In general, one month is enough.
(Recording 019. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 019)
Investigation Recording 2019-020
Date: March 13, 2019 (+86-13752453120)
Subject(s): Mo Chunbai, Director of Kidney Transplant, Tianjin First Central Hospital
Summary: About six months on average? Still pretty long...
(Recording 020. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 020)
Investigation Recording 2019-024
Date: March 15, 2019（+86-22-23626857）
Subject(s): Li Jiang, Deputy Chief Physician, Liver Transplant, Tianjin First Center Hospital
Summary: We can get it done soon. Write down my mobile phone number: 138 2046 7120. We have so many, so many, so many directors...
(Recording 024. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 024)
Investigation Recording 2019-026
Date: March 19, 2019 (+86-17733192929)
Subject(s): Gao Lianghui, Director of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical University
Summary: They are all brain-dead donors now. It could be available right away, or in one or two months.
(Recording 026. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 026)
Investigation Recording 2019-027
Date: March 19, 2019 (+86-898-66809311)
Subject(s): Zhang Shanbin, Lead Surgeon of Kidney Transplant, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical College
Summary: It (the transplant surgery) can be done in just four or five days after his examination is done during hospitalization.
(Recording 027. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 027)
Investigation Recording 2019-030
Date: March 21, 2019 (+86-87168261904)
Subject(s): Doctor Yang Ping, Hepatobiliary Center, the First People’s Hospital of Kunming
Summary: For blood type B, it shouldn’t take long. If lucky, if after this call you get him registered today, he may get one by tomorrow. That happened a lot!
(Recording 030. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 030)
Investigation Recording 2019-038
Date: April 8, 2019（+86-2985323955）
Subject(s): Two Nurses, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xian Jiaotong University
Summary: Normally, the wait time is three weeks, or perhaps one week if lucky.
(Recording 038. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 038)
Investigation Recording 2019-039
Date: April 12, 2019（+86-13908526899）
Subject(s): Liang Guiyou, President of Guizhou Medical University and Former President of Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical School
Summary:
Investigator: Can it (the surgery) be done in half a month?
Liang Guiyou: Yes, yes, no problem.
(Recording 039. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 039)
Investigation Recording 2019-043
Date: April 17, 2019（+86-371-67077512）
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Zhengzhou People's Hospital
Summary: We do over 200 cases a year. Some got their surgeries done within a few days after their arrival, but some had to wait for three to four months, or even five to six months.
(Recording 043. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 043)
Investigation Recording 2019-045
Date: April 22, 2019 (+86-7712870303）
Subject(s) of Investigation: Huang Huaping, Director of Liver Transplant, Chinese People’s Liberation Army No. 303 Hospital
Summary: Liver sources are available at any time. It can be as quick as a few days. We usually have two to four (transplant) surgeries a week.
(Recording 045. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 045)
Investigation Recording 2019-047
Date: May 8, 2019（+86-731-85295108）
Subject (s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University
Summary: Our liver sources are abundant. Sometimes we do two or three cases a day.
Investigator: Usually can it be done in half a week to a month?
Nurse: Yes, That’s about right.
(Recording 047. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 047)
Investigation Recording 2019-052
Date: June 10, 2019 (+ 86-371-67967126)
Subject(s): Nurse Wang, Liver Transplant Nurses’ Station, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Henan
Summary: To find organ donors, it takes two to three days in fast cases, but about 1 month in slow cases.
(Recording 052. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 052)
Investigation Recording 2019-055
Date: June 11, 2019（+86-371-60652180）
Subject(s): Doctor Tang, Kidney Transplant, Jinan Military No.153 Hospital
Summary: In the quickest case, it is very quick. We had a patient who came in one day and
got it done the next day. The average wait time is three months for a transplant surgery.
(Recording 055. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 055)
Investigation Recording 2019-058
Date: June 24, 2019（+86-13693686031）
Subject(s): Li Chuanyun, Associate Chief Physician, Liver Transplant, Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University
Summary: If you get registered on the waiting list tomorrow, you may obtain a liver source as soon as tomorrow if lucky, or you may get nothing even in the next several days, perhaps if you get registered tomorrow, you’ll get the surgery done the day after.
(Recording 058. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 058)
Investigation Recording 2019-059
Date: June 24, 2019（+86-13911567814）
Subject(s): Doctor Zhang Zhen, Liver Transplant Center, Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital
Medical University
Summary: Generally, it can be done in one month, and in some cases, it can be done in just a few days!
(Recording 059. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 059)
Investigation Recording 2019-061
Date: July 2, 2019, （+86-13903434416）
Subject(s): Shi Shaohua, Deputy Director, Dialysis Center, the Second People's Hospital of Shanxi Province
Summary: Some of the cases were done as soon as the next day, or in a few days.
(Recording 061. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 061)
Investigation Recording 2019-067
Date: July 1st, 2019（+86-351-4639507）
Subject(s): Doctor Wang Zhiming, Liver Transplant Center, First Hospital, Shanxi
Medical University
Summary: It cannot be done in a week for sure--it takes about two to three months.
(Recording 067. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 067)
Investigation Recording 2019-068
Date: July 8, 2019 (+86-13904722662)
Subject(s): Zhang Shengbin, Director of Hepatobiliary Surgery Center, Vice President of Bao Gang Hospital, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Inner Mongolia Medical University
Summary: Sometimes it takes just a few days for an organ source to be available, as if it suddenly shows up! But sometimes it may take ten days to half a month, one or two months, or something like that.
(Recording 068. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 068)
Investigation Recording 2019-069
Date: July 10, 2019（+86-1057976160）
Subject(s): Two Nurses, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service Unit, the Armed Police General Hospital, Beijing
Summary: There are fast cases where it takes two weeks; there are also cases where it takes one month.
(Recording 069. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 069)
Investigation Recording 2019-076
Date: August 5, 2019（+86-15286819833）
Subject(s): Hu Bowen, Chief Physician, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
Summary: There is no guarantee that it can be done in two weeks, because sometimes the wait can be nearly a month. One can certainly get admitted on the same day of arrival, as long as someone is discharged from the hospital.
(Recording 076. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 076)
Investigation Recording 2019-083
Date: August 23, 2019 (+86-53182166691)
Subject(s): Doctor Wang, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University
Summary: The wait time is half a month in a fast case. If fast, it could be quite fast. You can get in once a bed is available.
(Recording 083. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 083)
Investigation Recording 2019-086
Date: August 26, 2019 (+86-18661803627)
Subject(s): Wang Xin, Associate Chief Physician, Liver Transplant, Laoshan Division, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University
Summary: Investigator: Can it be done in half a month? Wang Xin: There shouldn’t be a major problem.
(Recording 086. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 086)
Investigation Recording 2019-090
Date: August 30, 2019 (+ 86-531-51666221)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant, Jinan Military General Hospital
Summary: Some cases are really fast! The previous two surgeries were performed the next day after the patients arrived.
(Recording 090. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 090)
Investigation Recording 2019-092
Date: September 1, 2019 (+86-5352955590)
Subject(s): Doctor Feng Zhendong, Liver Transplant, the People’s Liberation Army No. 107 Hospital, Yantai, Shandong Province
Summary: Regarding liver source, not almost every day, but we basically have (liver sources) almost every month. In fastest cases, we basically have organs every week. If you come here to register, maybe a liver source will become available immediately. But the surgery can be done at least three days later.
(Recording 092. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 092)
Investigation Recording 2019-093
Date: September 2, 2019 (+86-37167967126)
Subject(s): Nurse Yan, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
Summary: Investigator: It should be no problem to get it done in half a month, right?
Nurse Yan: Right, most of our cases are like that.
(Recording 093. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 093)
Investigation Recording 2019-095
Date: September 10, 2019 (+86-53182169449)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University
Summary: Some received the notice that their liver organs became available on the next or the third day after registration.
(Recording 095. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 095)
Investigation Recording 2019-096
Date: September 11, 2019（+86-2783665223）
Subject(s): Chen Dong, Chief Physician, Organ Transplant, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Summary: Every patient has to wait. It won't be very fast and will take about a month.
(Recording 096. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 096)
Investigation Recording 2019-097
Date: September 12, 2019 (+ 86-571-87236617)
Subject(s): Doctor Zheng, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Summary: We do liver transplants. Some got it (donor) in a week or two weeks, but some didn’t get any even after two months.
(Recording 097. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 097)
Investigation Recording 2019-099
Date: September 19, 2019 (+86-15827155019)
Subject(s): Yuan Wenyong, Associate Chief Physician, Hepatobiliary Disease Research Institute, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University
Summary: Tomorrow morning, you may bring his file to see me at our hospital outpatient clinic-- the 10th clinic, in the surgical section on the 4th floor. If he’s lucky, he can have it done upon his admission here. We did over 100 cases last year.
(Recording 099. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 099)
Investigation Recording 2019-112
Date: October 2, 2019（+86-20-82179622）
Subject(s): Doctor, Inpatient Service, Lingnan Division, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Summary: The patient must stay in a rental place nearby and cannot be admitted into the hospital either, while waiting for liver. Maybe It would take a week or half a month—that would be all possible.
(Recording 112. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 112)
Investigation Recording 2019-123
Date: October 10, 2019 (+86-7712870303)
Subject(s): Doctor Li, Organ Transplant Inpatient Service, the People’s Liberation Army Number 303 Hospital, Guangxi
Summary:
Investigator: So if 300 to 400 cases are done, according to the analysis of this figure, the wait time should be quite short. So, we feel we can still keep our expectations quite high that it will be quite hopeful, right?
Doctor Li: Yeah.
Investigator: He said his classmate’s father found a matching donor in a few days. So I want to come to your place!
Doctor Li: In this case you can, you can come over first, to have a consultation here in person. I cannot give you a definite answer, right? Because it is not just my own decision.
(Recording 123. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 123)
Investigation Recording 2019-120
Date: October 9, 2019 (+86-09918563278)
Subject(s): Nurse Liu, Hepatobiliary Surgery Nurses’ Station, the People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Autonomous Region
Summary: It is possible to get it done in a week or two. Whether it is quick or not depends on the patient’s condition, the physical conditions of the two persons involved, and the condition of liver function. Once he’s admitted here into our hospital, all problems can be resolved.
(Recording 120. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 120)
Investigation Recording 2019-137
Date: October 23, 2019（+86-871-68261904）
Subject(s): Nurse, the Hepatobiliary Inpatient Service, the First People’s Hospital of Kunming
Summary: If lucky, the surgery can be done in two to three weeks.
(Recording 137. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 137)
Investigation Recording 2019-140
Date: October 29, 2019 (+86-156119082820)
Subject(s): Ma Lulin, Chief Physician, Kidney Transplant, Peking University Third Hospital
Summary:
1. Investigator: lf we want to queue at your hospital, how long will we have to wait to have the surgery done? Can we have it done within half a month, or one month?
Doctor Ma: Such chances may exist, but relatively small.
2. Investigator: Ah, relatively small? His doctor said that he has blood type B, which may make it easy for the tissue typing. I wonder if his tissue typing can be done at your hospital.
Doctor Ma: Well, let’s do this: come to my outpatient clinic next Monday morning!
(Recording 140. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 140)
Investigation Recording 2019-150
Date: November 9, 2019 (+86-20-87755766)
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
Summary: If lucky, it takes one or two weeks to wait for the surgery, but if unlucky, it takes two or several months.
(Recording 150. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 150)
Investigation Recording 2019-165
Date: November 30, 2019 (+86-2152887170)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University
Summary: At our hospital here, we had patients who got (their transplants) done in three days; we also had those who waited for a month.
(Recording 165. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 165)
Investigation Recording 2019-167
Date: December 3, 2019 (+ 86-21-31162866)
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Changhai Hospital Affiliated to the Second Military Medical University
Summary:
Investigator: My friend, he waited less than two weeks at that time, and got it done in less than two weeks.
Doctor: Yes, it was quicker previously, it was quicker before, indeed.
(Recording 167. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 167)
Investigation Recording 2019-170
Date: December 9, 2019 (+86-535-6691999)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Shandong Province
Summary: It depends, for some, perhaps they can get their surgeries done in just over a week after admission, but for others they may still not be able to get their turns even after they’ve waited here for more than two months. The situations do vary from patient to patient.
(Recording 170. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 170)
Investigation Recording 2019-172
Date: December 10, 2019 (+86-13777816727)
Subject(s): Nurse, Referral Cooperation Office, Shulan (Hangzhou) Hospital
Summary: A patient may get it done within a week if it goes quickly. You may find that there has already been more than a dozen, 20, or even 30 patients waiting in the queue in front of you, and you would have to wait two or three months.
(Recording 172. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 172)
Investigation Recording 2019-173
Date: December 10, 2019 (+86-53251870835)
Subject(s): Doctor Jiao Xueli, Liver Transplantation Inpatient Service, the People's Liberation Army No. 401 Hospital (Qingdao)
Summary:
Investigator: Well, you’re experienced…because you must have the experience…according to your experience, can it be done in one month?
Jiao Xueli: It can be done in one month.
(Recording 173. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 173)
Investigation Recording 2019-174
Date: December 10, 2019 (+86-5352933591)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, the PLA’s No. 107 Hospital, Yantai, Shandong Province
Summary: If it is fast, there is no problem (to get the liver source) in a month. At our hospital, the fastest cases only take one or two days.
(Recording 174. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 174)
Investigation Recording 2019-179
Date: December 13, 2019 (+86-15012755716)
Subject(s): Doctor Zeng, Liver Transplant, Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital
Summary: It’s pretty easy to get Donor livers here. Usually it’s about one week if fast, and in the slowest case, the wait time is no longer than a month.
(Recording 179. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 179)
Investigation Recording 2019-186
Date: December 20, 2019（+86 20-38688524）
Subjects: Doctor, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou
Summery:
1. There is a shortage of beds at our hospital.
2. Investigator: Starting from the admission, the lab tests, and finally to the transplant operation--all these are to be done in one month. Do you think it all can be done by the end of the year?
Doctor: It depends on the situation. Under normal circumstances, it does not take a month.
3. Investigator: It doesn’t take half a month to get the surgery done after getting admitted into the hospital, right?
Doctor: I mean, if it goes well, it does not take half a month.
(Recording 186. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 186)
Investigation Recording 2019-190
Date: December 24, 2019 (+86-2985323900)
Subject(s): Nurse, Inpatient Service, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xian Jiaotong University
Summary:
1. Investigator: Hasn’t the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University done especially
many cases, and especially fast. Can it be done in a week?
Nurse: Yes, if a matched organ is found, as long as a matched organ is found.
Investigator: It can be done?
Nurse: Usually it can be done, and quite fast.
(Recording 190. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 190)
Investigation Recording 2019-194
Date: December 23, 2019（+86-25-83106666）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital
Summary: It can usually be done in one month.
(Recording 194. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 194)
Investigation Recording 2019-196
Date: December 26, 2019 (+ 86-15929931212)
Subjects of Investigation: Li Guowei, Kidney Transplant Surgeon, Xijing Hospital Affiliated to the Air Force Medical University (aka the Fourth Military Medical University)
Summary: If you are not picky about the kidney source, whether the kidney comes from a 50 (year-old) or 60 (year-old), you can all accept it. If this is the case, it will be done very quickly.
(Recording 196. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 196)
2. Transplant volumes
Large transplant volumes are mainly located in Bei (Beijing, Tianjin), Shang (Shanghai), and Guang (Guangzhou).
Based on 200 telephone investigation recordings, cities with the largest volumes of liver and kidney transplants are: Beijing You'an Hospital, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital; Tianjin First Central Hospital; Zhejiang University First Affiliated Hospital, Shulan (Hangzhou) Hospital; The First Hospital, Second Hospital, and Third Hospital of the Sun Yat-sen University, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University; Kunming First People's Hospital; Wuhan Tongji Hospital, Wuhan Union Hospital, Wuhan University Zhongnan Hospital; Changsha Xiangya Second and Third Hospital; The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University; The Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University; West China Hospital of Sichuan University.
Although the surgeons and nurses of Shanghai Renji Hospital are tight-lipped, their volume of liver transplants has been ranked first in the country for many years, besides Tianjin First Central Hospital.
Regarding the number of transplants, we selected 72 cases from 200 telephone investigation calls. Translations of recordings are as follows:
Investigation Recording 2019-001
Date: February 21, 2019 (+86-57455836149)
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, East Division, Ningbo Medical Center LiHuili Hospital
Summary: Many Type B patients wait in line for about two to three months. If you are determined and lucky, your wait may be just a few weeks. We have done many liver transplant surgeries and are ranked second in the province behind Shulan Hospital, but their operation fees are relatively higher.
(Recording 001. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 001)
Investigation Recording 2019-003
Date: February 21, 2019 (+86-13518815588)
Subject(s): Nurse, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Shulan (Hangzhou) Hospital
Summary:
Investigator: Oh, in that case, then you have done a lot, and the wait time is definitely shorter than that of the hospital of Zhejiang University?
Nurse: Yes, that is shorter than the average, but that also depends on each person’s own situation.
Investigator: Ah, ah. Then, at such a big hospital, an international hospital, as yours, can you do hundreds of liver transplants per year?
Nurse: Right, right, now we are doing the largest volume.
Investigator: How many can you do at most? Because I inquired about those hospitals in Shanghai, eh, Renji seems to be doing eight hundred a year according to the information on its website. So you guys do more than they do?
Nurse: We don’t compare ourselves with those in Shanghai, but only with those within the province.
(Recording 003. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 003)
Investigation Recording 2019-004
Date: February 21, 2019, （+86-57187236871）
Subject(s): Nurse, the Kidney Transplant Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University
Summary: About 400 to 500 kidney transplants are done every year. There have been several cases done this week.
(Recording 004. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 004)
Investigation Recording 2019-006
Date: February 22, 2019（+86-55 162922034）
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Anhui Medical University
Summary: Our hospital ranks first in Anhui province in terms of the kidney transplant volume. We have done several dozens of such operations and will be able to do over two hundred for this year.
(Recording 006. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 006)
Investigation Recording 2019-007
Date: February 22, 2019 (+86-371-66862191)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
Summary: We are among the top five in the country. We did nearly 400 kidney transplants last year. We have lots of kidney donors. We didn’t stop during the Chinese New Year holidays. We don’t have any holidays. We are very busy now. We need to do a kidney tissue typing today.
(Recording 007. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 007)
Investigation Recording 2019-008
Date: February 26, 2019（+86-371-67077358）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou
Summary: At the Liver Transplant Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, they have a larger team of experts, and perform more cases than us. They can do two to three hundred cases a year. We can do nearly 100 cases a year and did 6 cases this January.
(Recording 008. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 008)
Investigation Recording 2019-009
Date: March 4, 2019（+86-29-85323900）
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Summary: We do over one hundred liver transplants every year. We do it every week, not every day. Maybe two or three a day, or maybe just one in a week.
(Recording 009. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 009)
Investigation Recording 2019-010
Date: March 4, 2019 (+86-2985323955)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xian Jiaotong University
Summary: We’ve done a lot of kidney transplant surgeries, and we’ve had three or four operations just for today. Now every year we can do over 300 kidney transplant surgeries. There are over 50 hospital beds, but no beds are available right now.
(Recording 010. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 010)
Investigation Recording 2019-011
Date: March 4, 2019 (+86-371-67077263)
Subject(s): A Nurse, Transplant Clinic, Zhengzhou Province Hospital
Summary: Many kidney transplants have been done recently, so there are no beds available. If you come, we may need to add an extra bed. We can do about 200 cases each year.
(Recording 011. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 011)
Investigation Recording 2019-013
Date: March 7, 2019（+86-20-39318780）
Subject(s): Doctor and Nurse, Kidney Transplant, Guangdong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Summary: Every big hospital all does organ transplants. Around ten kidney transplants are done every month. For a hospital like ours, whose transplant volume ranks the 4 th or 5 th largest in the Guangdong Province, would that volume be counted a lot?
(Recording 013. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 013)
Investigation Recording 2019-014
Date: March 8, 2019（+86-57455836149）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, East Division, Ningbo Medical Center LiHuili Hospital
Summary: We do more than 60 liver transplants each year. We were No. 2 in terms of liver transplants in the whole province. Now the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine is No.1 and the Second Affiliated Hospital being behind us.
(Recording 014. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 014)
Investigation Recording 2019-015
Date: March 8, 2019（+86-1057976858）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Armed Police General Hospital
Summary: A lot of liver transplants are done at this hospital. As for liver transplants in Beijing, we do a lot, compared to others.
(Recording 015. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 015)
Investigation Recording 016
Date: March 11, 2019, （+86-731-88618235）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University
Summary:
1. Investigator: Is the wait time usually okay, relatively short? Because you do so many of them.
Doctor: Yes, yes. We do both liver and kidney transplants.
2. Investigator: So you do 200 to 300 liver transplants, and 200 to 300 kidney transplants as well?
Doctor: Yes, yes.
(Recording 016. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 016)
Investigation Recording 2019-017
Date: March 12, 2019（+86-10-63138350）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University
Summary: Yes, we have done a lot. Even in the whole country, we rank fairly well.
Investigator: Have we done any liver transplants this year? Have we done a lot this year?
Doctor: This year, we’re doing okay.
(Recording 017. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 017)
Investigation Recording 2019-022
Date: March 13, 2019（+86-371-60652182）
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant Center, the People’s Liberation Army No.153 Hospital
Summary: We’ve done quite a lot of kidney transplants; and did over 100 cases last year. Our director has been doing it all along.
(Recording 022. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 022)
Investigation Recording 2019-031
Date: March 21, 2019 (+86-13623665678)
Subject(s): Wang Huiying, Head Nurse of Kidney Transplant, the Second People’s Hospital of Shanxi Province
Summary: We do a lot of kidney transplants! More than 100 cases. We did 150 cases last year. The cost is 350,000 to 400,000 yuan.
(Recording 031. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 031)
Investigation Recording 2019-033
Date: March 24, 2019 (+86-87167390506)
Subject(s): Doctor, the Outpatient Clinic, the First People’s Hospital of Kunming (Ganmei Hospital)
Summary: Investigator: Do you do a lot at your hospital now? Doctor: We do quite a lot. We once did four cases at most in a day!
(Recording 033. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 033)
Investigation Recording 2019-036
Date: April 1, 2019 (+86-87167390509)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, North Division, the First People’s Hospital of Kunming
Summary: Investigator: Are there five or six hundred donors available at this hospital every year? Really so many? Nurse: Yes.
(Recording 036. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 036)
Investigation Recording 2019-041
Date: April 14, （+86-28-85422925）
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, West China Hospital, Sichuan University
Summary: We do hundreds of cases a year and have been doing that for over a decade.
(Recording 041. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 041)
Investigation Recording 2019-045
Date: April 22, 2019 (+86-7712870303）
Subject(s): Huang Huaping, Director of Liver Transplant, Chinese People’s Liberation Army No. 303 Hospital
Summary: Liver sources are available at any time. We do about 300 cases a year, and last year we did over 310 cases, of which 30 to 50 cases are liver transplants and 270 to 280 are kidney transplants, and the rest include pancreatic, lung transplants—we do them all.
(Recording 045. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 045)
Investigation Recording 2019-046
Date: April 23, 2019（+86-898-66808472）
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, Second Urology Unit, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical University
Summary: We can do over 100 cases per year. There are many patients on the waiting list!
(Recording 046. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 046)
Investigation Recording 2019-047
Date: May 8, 2019（+86-731-85295108）
Subject (s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University
Summary: Currently there are no vacant beds available. Our liver sources are abundant.
(Recording 047. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 047)
Investigation Recording 2019-051-1
Date: June 5, 2019 (+86-7712870605)
Subject(s) of Investigation: two Nurses, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Chinese People’s Liberation Army No. 303 Hospital
Summary: They do 20 cases in a busy month, but sometimes they do ten cases or even none in a month. They have 70 to 80 beds. There is a shortage of beds at the hospital now.
(Recording 051-1. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 051-1)
Investigation Recording 2019-051-2
Date: June 6, 2019（+86-13321717853）
Subject(s): Director Wu Fengfu, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Chinese People's Liberation Army No. 303 Hospital
Summary: We have done relatively more surgeries; the number of individual surgeries is relatively more.
Investigator: Is that right? Do you do surgeries every day?
Director Wu: Oh, we have done less recently.
(Recording 051-2. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 051-2)
Investigation Recording 2019-052
Date: June 10, 2019 (+ 86-371-67967126)
Subject(s): Nurse Wang, Liver Transplant Nurses’ Station, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Henan
Summary: Last year we did more than one hundred, like one hundred and thirty. We have 60 approved beds, with extra beds added in the inpatient service.
(Recording 052. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 052)
Investigation Recording 2019-053
Date: June 10, 2019 (+86-13598062817)
Subject(s): Guo Wenzhi, Director of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
Summary: We are one of the top major centers in the country, and we have done a lot of (transplant operations) this year. Last year we did more than 200 cases. Every month we do over 20 cases. We have done 110 cases until now (June 10) this year.
(Recording 053. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 053)
Investigation Recording 2019-056
Date: June 11, 2019 (+86-37166862192)
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
Summary: Generally, we do about 400 cases a year.
(Recording 056. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 056)
Telephone Investigation Recording 2019-057
Date: June 20, 2019 (+86-10-85231504)
Subject (s) of Investigation: Doctor Xu, Liver Transplant, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital
Summary: Investigator: You usually do 200 to 300 cases in a year? Doctor Xu: Yes! We do a lot, so don’t worry.
(Recording 057. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 057)
Investigation Recording 2019-058
Date: June 24, 2019（+86-13693686031）
Subject(s): Li Chuanyun, Associate Chief Physician, Liver Transplant, Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University
Summary: We perform 200 to 300 cases a year. Both hospitals, YouAn and Chao-Yang, have had the experience in performing over 1,000 cases. It should not be a problem if you come.
(Recording 058. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 058)
Investigation Recording 2019-059
Date: June 24, 2019（+86-13911567814）
Subject(s): Doctor Zhang Zhen, Liver Transplant Center, Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University
Summary: Annually, we do fewer than 200 cases, while they do around 200, or fewer than 300 cases at Chao-Yang Hospital—Both of our hospitals are about the same. I cannot guarantee that a vacant bed is available, but we have monitoring rooms.
(Recording 059. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 059)
Investigation Recording 2019-061
Date: July 2, 2019, （+86-13903434416）
Subject(s): Shi Shaohua, Deputy Director, Dialysis Center, the Second People's Hospital of Shanxi Province
Summary: Now we have done more than 100 cases. There are no vacant beds available, and they must be reserved.
(Recording 061. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 061)
Investigation Recording 2019-076
Date: August 5, 2019（+86-15286819833）
Subject(s): Hu Bowen, Chief Physician, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
Summary: For both this year and last year, your annual volume of the cases performed is a little over 300. We have five lead surgeons in total. He can certainly get admitted on the same day of his arrival, as long as someone isdischarged from the hospital.
(Recording 076. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 076)
Investigation Recording 2019-085
Date: August 26, 2019 (+86-53282913223)
Subject(s): Doctor Wang, Kidney Transplant, Laoshan Division, the First Affiliated Hospital, Qingdao University
Summary: We have many patients, and we do more than 200 cases in a year. There’s a shortage of the beds now at our hospital.
(Recording 085. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 085)
Investigation Recording 2019-089
Date: August 27, 2019 (+ 86-531-89268575)
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital
Summary: We do more than 200 cases per year.
(Recording 089. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 089)
Investigation Recording 2019-091
Date: August 30, 2019 (+86-53151665930)
Subject(s): Two Nurses, the Outpatient Clinic, Kidney Transplant, the PLA No. 161 Hospital
Summary:
1. Investigator: I’d like to ask whether you do a lot of cases.
Nurse 2: Anyway, we can do it.
2. Investigator: You can do it. Then do you do a lot of cases or not?
Nurse 2: Not in a small volume!
(Recording 091. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 091)
Investigation Recording 2019-093
Date: September 2, 2019 (+86-37167967126)
Subject(s): Nurse Yan, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
Summary: We do hundreds of cases a year.
(Recording 093. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 093)
Investigation Recording 2019-094
Date: September 3, 2019 (+86-37166862192)
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
Summary: We do lots of cases now and have no beds available. There are no beds available recently. So, don’t come over yet! It’s just that relatively we have more kidney sources.
(Recording 094. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 094)
Investigation Recording 2019-096
Date: September 11, 2019（+86-2783665223）
Subject(s): Chen Dong, Chief Physician, Organ Transplant, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Summary: Our hospital does the surgeries almost every day. We do about 150 cases a year.
(Recording 096. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 096)
Investigation Recording 2019-097
Date: September 12, 2019 (+ 86-571-87236617)
Subject(s): Doctor Zheng, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Summary: We do liver transplants. We do more than 200 cases every year!
(Recording 097. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 097)
Investigation Recording 2019-100
Date: September 19, 2019 (+86-2767812988)
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University
Summary: Our director, Ye Qiqiang, is a well-known transplant surgeon in the country. We can do several hundred cases a year, and Director Ye is our leading expert.
(Recording 100. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 100)
Investigation Recording 2019-104
Date: September 24, 2019 (+86-73189753702)
Subject(s): Two Doctors including Doctor Zhu, Kidney Transplant, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University
Summary:
1. Investigator: They said your hospital could do 400 to 500 cases in a year. Is that right?
Doctor: Not that many. But the 2nd Xiangya Hospital can do that many.
2. Investigator: How many do you do in a year?
Doctor: Over 140 surgeries in a year.
(Recording 104. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 104)
Investigation Recording 2019-105
Date: September 25, 2019（+86-737-4230527）
Subject(s): A Nurse & Doctor Zhang, Kidney Transplant, Yiyang Central Hospital, Hunan Province
Summary: We do a little over 100 cases a year.
(Recording 105. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 105)
Investigation Recording 2019-106
Date: September 27, 2019, （+86-734-8899683）
Subject(s) of Investigation: Nurse, Inpatient Service, Kidney Transplant Center, the Second Hospital, University of South China
Summary: We have done eight or ten cases this month.
Investigator: Oh…that’s good, you can do a few hundred cases in one year, can’t you?
Nurse: Um…
(Recording 106. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 106)
Investigation Recording 2019-108
Date: September 30, 2019 (+86-2082379475)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Huangpu Division, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Summary: Investigator: My friend said your hospital can do a few hundred operations per year.
Nurse: Uh.
(Recording 108. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 108)
Investigation Recording 2019-110
Date: October 1, 2019 (+ 86-20-8217900)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Lingnan Division, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
Summary: Everyone in our transplant program is a chief physician or a professor. We do 200 to 300 liver transplants a year.
(Recording 110. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 110)
Investigation Recording 2019-112
Date: October 2, 2019（+86-20-82179622）
Subject(s): Doctor, Inpatient Service, Lingnan Division, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Summary: We performed 376 cases last year. The number of surgeries depends on the liver sources.
(Recording 112. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 112)
Investigation Recording 2019-114
Date: October 4, 2019 (+ 86-20-89168095)
Subject(s): Doctor Wang Xiao, Organ Transplant, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital
Summary: The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University has nearly the most kidney sources in Guangdong Province. In fact, in Guangdong province, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University has even more kidney sources than that of Sun Yat-sen University and does the largest quantity of cases there.
Investigator: The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University can do 500 or 600 cases a year. They do a larger quantity of cases there.
Doctor Wang: Yes, their hospital does quite a lot, right!
(Recording 114. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 114)
Investigation Recording 2019-116
Date: October 8, 2019 (+86-7712188106)
Subject(s) of Investigation: Doctor, Kidney Transplant, Ruikang Hospital Affiliated to Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine
Summary: We do about one hundred operations a year at our hospital. This technique has been used for a few decades.
(Recording 116. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 116)
Investigation Recording 2019-117
Date: October 9, 2019 (+86-02062782501)
Subject(s): Doctor Guo, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, ZhuJiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou
Summary: We do over a hundred transplants a year. We’re not worse than other hospitals in the city. We have been doing it for years, as one of those who started it early in Guangzhou. There are no beds available now if they come. They need to make reservations first.
(Recording 117. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 117)
Investigation Recording 2019-118
Date: October 9, 2019 (+86-7712870303)
Subject(s): Nurse, Organ Transplant Inpatient Service, Chinese People’s Liberation Army No. 303 Hospital, Guangxi Province
Summary: We are full now, one bed was assigned today for a female patient today, then there is none for male patient. We have more than 80 beds, either in single-bed rooms or double-bed rooms. We do a lot of liver transplants and have been doing that for so many years! We do kidney transplants a little more than liver transplants.
(Recording 118. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 118)
Investigation Recording 2019-123
Date: October 9, 2019 (+86-7712870303)
Subject(s): Doctor Li, Organ Transplant Inpatient Service, the People’s Liberation Army Number 303 Hospital, Guangxi
Summary: Investigator: Your kidney supply is quite abundant! Doctor Li: Ah, yes. We have over a hundred beds. We do three to four hundred operations per year.
(Recording 123. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 123)
Investigation Recording 2019-130
Date: October 17, 2019 (+86-13372618116)
Subject(s): Huang Xiaobing, Associate Chief Physician, Liver Transplant, Xinqiao Hospital Affiliated to the Third Army Medical University
Summary: Zhejiang Medical University and Shulang Hospital have more brain-dead DCD liver donors. West China Hospital in Chengdu also does a lot! Objectively speaking, West China Hospital does more than we do. West China Hospital and Southwest Hospital are about the same, they are about the same in terms of the quantity.
(Recording 130. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 130)
Investigation Recording 2019-136
Date: October 22, 2019 (+86-85185258229)
Subject(s): A Nurse, 3rd Hepatobiliary Division, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital
Summary: Our beds are fully occupied. We have 45 approved beds. If the extra beds are included, there would be nearly 60 beds at our hospital. We don’t have any extra bed available if you would come now.
(Recording 136. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 136)
Investigation Recording 2019-137
Date: October 23, 2019（+86-871-68261904）
Subject(s): Nurse, the Hepatobiliary Inpatient Service, the First People’s Hospital of Kunming
Summary: We are running near full capacity. But we can put up extra beds in the hallways! We can do that when needed. If lucky, the surgery can be done in two to three weeks.
(Recording 137. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 137)
Investigation Recording 2019-144
Date: November 6, 2019 (+86-37166862191)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
Summary: Our beds are in short supply. Every doctor is good.
Investigator: How many can you do per year? 200 to 300 operations per year?
Nurse: Ah, more than that for sure!
(Recording 144. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 144)
Investigation Recording 2019-147
Date: November 6, 2019 (+86-53282913223)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant, Organ Transplant Center, the Affiliated Hospital, Qingdao University
Summary: We did over 200 cases the year before last and did over 200 cases last year. The transplant volumes are about the same every year.
(Recording 147. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 147)
Investigation Recording 2019-148
Date: November 7, 2019 (+86-2783662655)
Subject(s): Nurse, Organ Transplant Inpatient Service, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Summary:
1. Usually we’re nearly at capacity.
2. Investigator: They told me that I should skip all hospitals that perform 100+ or 200+ cases but only talk to those that perform 500 or 600 cases. They told me to only look for those large ones.
Nurse: Well, since I don’t have the data at hand now, I don’t... I may also have to get online to look into it.
(Recording 148. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 148)
Investigation Recording 2019-149
Date: November 8, 2019（+86-20-62782501）
Subject(s): (Compared to the Southern Hospital) We have done more cases, and we also have a lot of beds at the inpatient service—over 60 beds. When kidney sources come, they sometimes come in a large volume. As a result, we did a lot of cases during the last holiday break! We annually did 100 to 200 cases with no problem. We even did 300 cases before! In one year. We have three teams in total.
(Recording 149. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 149)
Investigation Recording 2019-150
Date: November 9, 2019 (+86-20-87755766)
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
Summary: With the two divisions combined, there should be more than 400 cases performed in a year.
(Recording 150. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 150)
Investigation Recording 2019-151
Date: November 13, 2019 (+86-28-87393738)
Subject(s): Guo Pu, Attending Physician, Kidney Transplant, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital
Summary: We do more than 100 cases a year. Many doctors can do transplant surgeries.
(Recording 151. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 151)
Investigation Recording 2019-152
Date: November 19, 2019 (+ 86-1085231504)
Subject(s): Doctor on Duty, Liver Transplant, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital
Summary: There are 150 cases which have been done so far this year. Liver Transplant is divided into six medical teams. Because we’re always at full capacity, we cannot admit your patient until after a patient is discharged from the hospital.
(Recording 152. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 152)
Investigation Recording 2019-154
Date: November 20, 2019 (+86-7715356528)
Subject(s) of Investigation: Nurse, First Inpatient Service Section, Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University
Summary: There are more than 50 beds at this hospital. Even with many beds, we won’t let our patients lying here and waiting for the incoming livers. If his case is serious, he should head to the Gastroenterology. if he doesn’t come for an operation, he won’t be in our division.
(Recording 154. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 154)
Investigation Recording 2019-157
Date: November 25, 2019 (+ 86-10-56118899)
Subject(s): Nurse, the Hepatobiliary Surgery Inpatient Service, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital
Summary: The beds are in tight supply. It may not be possible to have a vacant bed available upon arrival. There are about 50 beds here in the hepatobiliary surgery inpatient service section.
(Recording 157. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 157)
Investigation Recording 2019-176
Date: December 11, 2019 (+86-5368675806)
Subject(s): Doctor Zhu, Kidney Transplant, Weifang People’s Hospital, Shandong Province
Summary: In any case, each year we can do a lot! Hospital beds are in hot demand. But for transplant patients, they can be arranged with priority. There are special rooms, special monitoring rooms.
(Recording 176. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 176)
Investigation Recording 2019-179
Date: December 13, 2019 (+86-15012755716)
Subject(s): Doctor Zeng, Liver Transplant, Shenzhen Third Peopl’s Hospital
Summary: We’ve done over 80 cases this year, but that’s only the volume for half of the year, because we really didn’t do many the first half of the year. From June till now, we’ve done about 60 cases, 60 to 70 cases. Over ten operations are done every month. Next year it for sure will be 100 cases. No doubt about it. One hundred operations should rank between the 15th and the 20th place in the country.
(Recording 179. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 179)
Investigation Recording 2019-182
Date: December 16, 2019 （+86-10-84206193）
Subject(s): Nurse, ICU Inpatient Service, Kidney Transplant, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing
Summary: We do a lot of kidney transplants. We’ve just done over one hundred cases this year.
(Recording 182. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 182)
Investigation Recording 2019-183
Date: December 16, 2019 (+86-1083997175)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University
Summary: To do liver transplants, quite a lot of patients are waiting. In the liver transplant center, there is not just one, but a few directors. How many we have done this year; I do not have that number. What I can tell you is that we can do the surgery.
(Recording 183. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 183)
Investigation Recording 2019-185
Date: December 18, 2019 (+86-2082179000)
Subject(s): Nurse Luo, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Summary: Our hospital is one specialized in treating liver diseases. What we do here is all about liver transplants, and other liver diseases. There are two Affiliated Hospitals in Guanzhou. We are a transplant center here, the biggest one in the Lingnan region. Over 200 cases can be done in a year.
(Recording 185. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 185)
Investigation Recording 2019-187
Date: December 22, 2019 (+86-20-81292162)
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University
Summary: This year we have done 80 to 90 cases, nearly 90 cases. At both the Second Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University and the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, they do quite a lot, in the range of several hundred cases! We do about 100 cases every year. They are a bit faster!
(Recording 187. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 187)
Investigation Recording 2019-195
Date: December 26, 2019 （+86-29-84771095）
Subjects: Nurse, Kidney Transplant, Xijing Hospital Affiliated to the Air Force Medical University (aka the Fourth Military Medical University)
Summary: We have not done that many transplant surgeries compared to the Xi'an Jiaotong University Hospital; they have done much more!
Investigator: So can they perform four or five hundred surgeries at the Xi'an Jiaotong University Hospital?
Nurse: Yes, yes, that is right!
(Recording 195. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 195)
Investigation Recording 2019-196
Date: December 26, 2019 (+ 86-15929931212)
Subjects: Li Guowei, Kidney Transplant Surgeon, Xijing Hospital Affiliated to the Air Force Medical University (aka the Fourth Military Medical University)
Summary: Xijing Hospital does more than 300 cases of kidney transplantation per year.
(Recording 196. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 196)
3. Organ sources
The origins of organs are unkown. Doctors and nurses became highly alert when they were asked about organ sources, and they all said that they didn’t know! Instead, they would ask you to go to the outpatient clinic to register to meet the director. The director’s reply to regarding organ sources: They are all from brain-dead donators, which were found by the hospital OPO. It is required to have a face to face meeting if you have any other questions.
Ancient Chinese tradition requires that the whole body be buried after death, and the official call for organ donations has been resisted by society. Therefore, voluntary donation from citizens exists in name only. “Most people are unwilling to donate now, and the number of people who are willing to donate become less and less,” said Li Guowei, a kidney transplant doctor at Xijing Hospital. This is the current circumstances of organ donation in China.
Regarding organ sources, we selected 12 cases from 200 telephone investigation calls. The translations of recordings are listed below:
Investigation Recording 2019-012
Date: March 7, 2019（+86-10-85231504）
Subject(s): A Doctor, Liver Transplant, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital
Summary: You have done over one hundred liver transplants this year. It won’t take long.
Investigator: Beijing Red Cross Society does not provide you with any liver sources. So, where do you get your livers from?
Doctor: Oh yes, who said they were not from them?
Investigator: He said they don’t have any donations at all. So for your donors, do you acquire them by yourself? Do you get them from your own OPO? Or somewhere else?
Doctor: We get livers from them!
(Recording 012. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 012)
Investigation Recording 2019-021
Date: March 13, 2019 (+ 86-371-66231417)
Subject(s): Doctor, Office of Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Henan University of Chinese Medicine
Summary: Investigator: Where do your organs come from? Doctor: They are from that ICU, from the monitoring rooms. They are from the brain-dead patients. The brain-dead patients are from our hospital or other places.
(Recording 021. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 021)
Investigation Recording 2019-045
Date: April 22, 2019 (+86-7712870303）
Subject(s): Huang Huaping, Director of Liver Transplant, Chinese People’s Liberation Army No. 303 Hospital
Summary: We have a dedicated OPO team acquiring organs from different channels. A person from our division is in charge of all these things. Currently, each individual unit or hospital is inclined to have more autonomy with organ allocation. They (the Red Cross) witness and go through the protocols with us thoroughly. All procedures comply with National Legal Regulations and Protocols. All procedures are included.
(Recording 045. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 045)
Investigation Recording 2019-046
Date: April 23, 2019（+86-898-66808472）
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, Second Urology Unit, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical University
Summary: We can do over 100 cases per year. How would I know where the kidney sources come from?
(Recording 046. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 046)
Telephone Investigation Recording 2019-057
Date: June 20, 2019 (+86-10-85231504)
Subject (s) of Investigation: Doctor Xu, Liver Transplant, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital
Summary: Please ask the director about liver donors. Liver transplants are more complicated, especially regarding liver donors.
(Recording 057. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 057)
Investigation Recording 2019-114
Date: October 4, 2019 (+ 86-20-89168095)
Subject(s): Doctor Wang Xiao, Organ Transplant, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital
Summary:
Investigator: Which organization is in charge of their allocation?
Doctor Wang: Oh, that, that place cannot be reached, and that is done through our own hospital, oh, it’s within the division; the transplant group in every division will do that on its own...
Investigator: You need to find the organ sources yourselves, to acquire them, right? The doctors will search for the organs themselves, right?
Doctor Wang: They won’t search the organs by themselves. They have contact persons. If someone donates an organ, we will be contacted via these contacts.
Investigator: Ah, if a donor is available, you will be contacted directly, so you won’t need to contact the Red Cross Society, right?
Doctor Wang: No, it’s not like that. They must be involved in the process, and we all work together, because there is a unified allocation system, where all parties, including not only us, but also the Red Cross, are involved. Then on our side, whether at the division level or the hospital level… we all work together as parts of that one system, it is not like that you could contact any particular unit. So, once we get notified, we might coordinate this matter with everyone together, so all are involved, participating in it.
(Recording 114. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 114)
Investigation Recording 2019-118
Date: October 9, 2019 (+86-7712870303)
Subject(s): Nurse, Organ Transplant Inpatient Service, Chinese People’s Liberation Army No. 303 Hospital, Guangxi Province
Summary: Donors are sometimes allocated, but mostly have to be found by ourselves! To look for organs, we have our designated OPO team.
(Recording 118. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 118)
Investigation Recording 2019-129
Date: October 17, 2019 (+86-089866809122)
Subject(s): Doctor Liu, Organ Transplant, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical University
Summary:
Investigator: In Guangzhou, there is a brain-death center. Do you also have such a center there?
Doctor Liu: Let’s not talk about those things over the phone, okay? Tonight, I’ve told you quite a lot, too much already!
(Recording 129. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 129)
Investigation Recording 2019-132
Date: October 18, 2019（+86-85186774319）
Subject(s): Doctor Chen, Liver Transplant, the Affiliated Hospital, Guizhou Medical University
Summary: We’ve performed more cases since last year. We acquire our organs, not through the Red Cross itself, but a separate organization managed by it—the OPO.
(Recording 132. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 132)
Investigation Recording 2019-141
Date: November 1, 2019 (+86-571-87236711)
Subject(s): Nurse, the Hemodialysis Unit, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Summary: The investigator asked the nurse whether she could access the organ deployment coordination website.
Nurse: We cannot search up this information, either. This is only for the organ procurement coordinator of each hospital—only the authorized person or the special department—or several organ procurement coordinators in our hospital can get on the network. There is no way for us to search on the network.
(Recording 141. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 141)
Investigation Recording 2019-152
Date: November 19, 2019 (+ 86-1085231504)
Subject(s): Doctor on Duty, Liver Transplant, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital
Summary: Our liver sources are from all over the country, (from) other local hospitals. You don’t need to worry about these things.
(Recording 152. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 152)
Investigation Recording 2019-196
Date: December 26, 2019 (+ 86-15929931212)
Subjects: Li Guowei, Kidney Transplant Surgeon, Xijing Hospital Affiliated to the Air Force Medical University (aka the Fourth Military Medical University)
Summary: The majority of the people are unwilling to donate now, and fewer and fewer people are willing to donate. You have no other way to get kidney sources now. Although there are car accidents on the road every day, the problem is that not every day you have donations. It is useless for the donor to sign it himself. When the time comes, the donor’s family members must agree. If they don’t, the organs can’t be donated even if you have a written consent. The so-called allocation by the Red Cross Society are…the officials... it is totally just based on a sentence of the officials!
(Recording 196. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 196)
4. Organs from brain-dead donors
The Chinese medical community has not promulgated the "Regulation of Brain Death." After the CCP declared in 2015 that organs from death row prisoners would be suspended, voluntary donations after death became the only source of organ transplants. However, since then, all hospitals have publicly adopted their own "brain death standards" to obtain or even manufacture "brain-dead organs" for transplants.
For brain-dead organ donations, we selected 10 cases from 200 telephone investigation calls. Translations of investigation recordings are as follows:
Investigation Recording 2019-006
Date: February 22, 2019（+86-55 162922034）
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Anhui Medical University
Summary: We’ll try our best to keep his organ (kidney) in good condition.
(Recording 006. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 006)
Investigation Recording 2019-019
Date: March 13, 2019 (+86-22-23626857)
Subject (s): Doctor Li and Director Guo Qingjun, Liver Transplant, Tianjin First Central Hospital
Summary:
Investigator: Are there any young and healthy donors from the judicial system available?
Director Guo: No one uses those from the judicial system currently. They are all from voluntary donors.
Investigator: Oh?
Director Guo: How can I guarantee the quality for you? You sound like a layman by asking this. We must use those in good quality!
(Recording 019. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 019)
Investigation Recording 2019-026
Date: March 19, 2019 (+86-17733192929)
Subject(s): Gao Lianghui, Director of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical University
Summary: There are definitely no longer such organs as those previously taken from executed prisoners–those were direct and healthy. Now all donors may have this or that issue, that, however, won’t affect the liver functions. So, on this thing, no hospital can guarantee you, or promise you a particular level of their quality.
(Recording 026. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 026)
Investigation Recording 2019-045
Date: April 22, 2019 (+86-7712870303）
Subject(s): Huang Huaping, Director of Liver Transplant, Chinese People's Liberation Army No. 303 Hospital
Summary: Starting from the very beginning when donors are identified, we get involved by proactively inspecting and maintaining (the organs) and keep everything about the organ sources under our control.
Investigator: The hospital president, He Xiaoshun from that hospital in Guangzhou, has developed a non-ischemic liver transplant procedure. Do you use that in performing the surgeries?
Director Huang Huaping: That’s what we do too! Ha-ha, but…
(Recording 045. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 045)
Investigation Recording 2019-059
Date: June 24, 2019（+86-13911567814）
Subject(s): Doctor Zhang Zhen, Liver Transplant Center, Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University
Summary:
1. Investigator: Are organs from younger donors of better quality?
Dr. Zhang: Not really. Those (organs) that become available right before the surgery with
relatively short (treatment) time are considered good.
2. Investigator: What do you mean by shorter?
Doctor Zhang: That’s referring to the treatment time before the previous operation (of
removing the organ from donors, like those of car accidents or acute cerebral hemorrhages. For example, those who had received treatments for more than a month later donated their organs, but such organs may have a certain degree of damage. Age is also a factor.
(Recording 059. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 059)
Investigation Recording 2019-112
Date: October 2, 2019（+86-20-82179622）
Subject(s): Doctor, Inpatient Service, Lingnan Division, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Summary: It’s impossible that the organ has not got excised after his death, and it must be taken from him before his death.
(Recording 112. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 112)
Investigation Recording 2019-151
Date: November 13, 2019 (+86-28-87393738)
Subject(s): Guo Pu, Attending Physician, Kidney Transplant, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital
Summary: Donated organs are definitely riskier than those from relatives. Organ donation from a brain-dead relies on the machine to keep the donor alive. If the machine is removed, he or she will die.
(Recording 151. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 151)
Investigation Recording 2019-167
Date: December 3, 2019 (+ 86-21-31162866)
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Changhai Hospital Affiliated to the Second Military Medical University
Summary: For quality issue, no one can guaneete that. That stuff is donated by another person. Why does the person donate? He or she must be sick with some problems, then dies so the person’s organ gets donated.
(Recording 167. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 167)
Investigation Recording 2019-196
Date: December 26, 2019 (+ 86-15929931212)
Subjects: Li Guowei, Kidney Transplant Surgeon, Xijing Hospital Affiliated to the Air Force Medical University (aka the Fourth Military Medical University)
Summary: Most of the people are unwilling to donate now, and fewer and fewer people are willing to donate. Although there are car accidents on the road every day, the problem is that not every day you have donationsYou have no other way to get kidney sources now. It is useless for the donor to sign it himself. When the time comes, the donor’s family members must agree. If they don’t, the organs can’t be donated even if you have a written consent. Wherever you have acquaintances, you can do the transplant there. This is because as family members of a patient, you have no right to know the information of the donor, and no one will tell you this information, either. To put it bluntly, whether (the organ) replacement is from a 50-year-old or a 60-year-old, whether it has stopped or not in the past and how is the quality of the kidney source. All of you won’t know. You get the (organ) without knowing anything about it.
(Recording 196. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 196)
5. Post-operation
Patients usually encounter rejections and various complications after liver and kidney transplants. “Surgery itself is risky. Not only the surgical risks, but also some later treatments are risky,” Dr. Zhu, Kidney Transplant, Xiangya Hospital said. In other words, organ transplants are not as successful and optimistic as the official boast. A kidney transplant surgeon at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College (Guangzhou Medical Third Hospital) said: “After a kidney transplant, you must have follow-up visits for rest of the life. You must pay the follow-up visit as long as you have the kidney. If the kidney fails, you have to have a second or third kidney transplant."
In response to the risk patients facing after surgery, we selected 10 cases out of 200 telephone investigation calls. Translations of recordings are as follows:
Investigation Recording 2019-008
Date: February 26, 2019（+86-371-67077358）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou
Summary: Liver transplant surgeries, after all, are known to carry the highest risk among
all the surgeries we do, so he would run a pretty large risk himself, whether it’s preoperative or postoperative. For liver transplants, their success rate or recovery rate is far lower than that of kidney transplants. This is shown and supported by the big data analysis.
(Recording 008. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 008)
Investigation Recording 2019-019
Date: March 13, 2019 (+86-22-23626857)
Subject (s): Doctor Li and Director Guo Qingjun, Liver Transplant, Tianjin First Central Hospital
Summary: After being discharged from the hospital, a patient needs to pay the hospital a weekly follow-up visit. If all indicators are normal, the patient may have a follow-up visit once every two weeks, even once a month. The intervals would become longer gradually.
(Recording 019. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 019)
Investigation Recording 2019-083
Date: August 23, 2019 (+86-53182166691)
Subject(s): Doctor Wang, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University
Summary:
Investigator: Oh. At that director, or professor level, there is no problem with their skills, right?
Doctor Wang: Anyway, there are still certain risks with the operations. We can’t guarantee that they will definitely be successful.
Investigator: Oh…so, usually how soon a patient can be discharged after the liver transplant?
Doctor Wang: That’s hard to say. It depends on each person’s situation. Someone can be discharged from hospital very soon if the postoperative recovery is good. But if the patient’s physical condition is a bit worse, or not good, he may have to stay in the hospital for up to three months or more.
(Recording 083. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 083)
Investigation Recording 2019-104
Date: September 24, 2019 (+86-73189753702)
Subject(s): Two Doctors including Doctor Zhu, Kidney Transplant, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University
Summary: There are many risks in such surgeries. Not only the surgeries themselves, but also their postoperative treatments—they all carry risks.
Investigator: I want to find someone younger, and healthier?
Doctor Zhu: You can raise such a request. Just tell them when you register. That is no problem. All right.
(Recording 104. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 104)
Investigation Recording 2019-152
Date: November 19, 2019 (+ 86-1085231504)
Subject(s): Doctor on Duty, Liver Transplant, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital
Summary: In every case, every liver transplant operation we do have the postoperative rejection issues. There is no way to avoid such risks. We would provide the corresponding anti-rejection treatments after the operation, and let your patient take the medicine for life and monitor this thing for life.
(Recording 152. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 152)
Investigation Recording 2019-154
Date: November 20, 2019 (+86-7715356528)
Subject(s) of Investigation: Nurse, First Inpatient Service Section, Hepatobiliary
Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University
Summary:
Investigator: We are afraid that we spend a huge amount of money on the transplant but face a rejection. Then our loved one is gone, and our money is gone!
Nurse: That’s the common topic for everyone. But that’s hard to say, hard to predict. Among the patients we’re operating on, for example, even brain lesions occur.
(Recording 154. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 154)
Investigation Recording 2019-160
Date: November 27, 2019 (+ 86-9918563278)
Subject(s): Nurse, the Hepatobiliary Surgery Inpatient Service, the People's Hospital, Xinjiang Autonomous Region
Summary:
Investigator: Does your hospital do a lot? What about the surgeon’s techniques? My family members are quite concerned about those issues such as the postoperative complications or infections?
Nurse: In the two cases we performed previously, they need to come back for a follow-up visit once a while. They have been taking the prescribed anti-rejection drugs and so on and have to take them for life. They will have to keep up with their follow-up visits, and to keep getting prescription drugs.
(Recording 160. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 160)
Investigation Recording 2019-172
Date: December 10, 2019 (+86-13777816727)
Subject(s): Nurse, Referral Cooperation Office, Shulan (Hangzhou) Hospital
Summary: That’s why the cost varies a lot. Some patients have good physical conditions and recover quickly, and get discharged in just over a month, so they don’t spend much
money on their post-op care. But some other patients have to spend one to two months, or even longer just in the ICU, and after that, they have to spend yet a long time staying in hospital for their recoveries. So, the total cost may exceed 500,000 or 600,000 yuan.
(Recording 172. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 172)
Investigation Recording 2019-187
Date: December 22, 2019 (+86-20-81292162)
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University
Summary: After his kidney transplant surgery, the patient needs to return and pay follow-up visits for life. For as long as his kidney is functioning, he needs to keep up with his follow-up visits. Even when his kidney becomes exhausted to the point of failure, he will have to come back for another kidney transplant and may have to do so twice or three times.
(Recording 187. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 187)
Investigation Recording 2019-194
Date: December 23, 2019（+86-25-83106666）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital
Summary: Some patients here have had transplant surgeries done twice. With various postoperative complications, patients may need to stay in ICU. As ICU costs a lot daily, so the overall cost, or its upper limit, is really hard to tell. We had some patients whose overall costs went up over 2,000,000 yuan. If it’s liver cancer, it’s hard to predict when his relapse would occur.
(Recording 194. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 194)
Investigation Recording 2019-197
Date: December 27, 2019（+86-0-25-68303180）
Subject(s): A Nurse and a doctor, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University
Summary:
Investigator: If severe acute rejection occurs after the surgery, is it possible to have the second transplant surgery?
Doctor: Anything could happen!
(Recording 197. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 197)
6. Organs from Falun Gong practitioners
Organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners is still undergoing. The hospital referred to Falun Gong donors as "previous donors". The following are common repeating answers to the question---are there any organs availabe from Falun Gong practitioners?
1. That's what happened before, and it's no longer available. We don't have those from judicial systems.
2. I do not have a say in this!
3. We can talk about this when we meet at the hospital tomorrow.
4. You just ask him to call my cell number, okay?
5. First agree to meet at the hospital, then deny it completely, and let out a string of expletives.
6. Say no first, then promise to meet.
7. When you asked the "previous donor", they were so shocked, and they spoke incoherently, then gagged and swore.
8. I don’t know the past, and I don’t care about it!
9. You must have a connection and a background and are well-connected. More wealthy people all want these organs.
For organs from Falun Gong practitioners, we selected 17 cases out of 200 telephone investigation calls. The translations of investigation recordings are as follows:
Investigation Recording 2019-012
Date: March 7, 2019（+86-10-85231504）
Subject(s): A Doctor, Liver Transplant, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital
Summary:
Investigator: Are there any livers from Falun Gong practitioners?
Doctor: Ah, no. That’s impossible. That time has long gone.
Investigator: So your hospital used livers from Falun Gong practitioners in the past? Doctor: How long ago was that? That was many years ago. I’m not sure. Back then, all…
(Recording 012. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 012)
Investigation Recording 2019-014
Date: March 8, 2019（+86-57455836149）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, East Division, Ningbo Medical Center
LiHuili Hospital
Summary:
Investigator: Do you still have donors from Falun Gong Practitioners?
Doctor: No, no, no, we don’t have that kind.
(Recording 014. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 014)
Investigation Recording 2019-023
Date: March 15, 2019（+86-2223626862）
Subject (s): Doctor Wu, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Tianjin First Central Hospital
Summary:
Investigator: We, we run our own business, money is not an issue. So first and foremost, we need a good doctor. Secondly, we need a high-quality organ.
Dr. Wu: Oh...
Investigator: Could you please find me a practitioner donor? Doctor Wu: I do not have a say on such a matter! We do not currently have those. They are all acquired via a unified allocation. Organ-related questions require a face-to-face meeting.
(Recording 023. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 023)
Investigation Recording 2019-026
Date: March 19, 2019 (+86-17733192929)
Subject(s): Gao Lianghui, Director of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical University
Summary:
Investigator: How about the donors?
Director Gao Lianghui: It is all like that across the entire country. As for the quality of donors, about this thing, as you know, it is not like… anyway, there are definitely no longer such organs as those previously taken from executed prisoners–those were direct and healthy. We haven’t done that for three or four years. In our industry, we all know that no one does that (i.e. organ harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners) anymore.
Now domestically, I don’t know if other (hospitals) are still doing that (i.e. organ harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners). I don’t know. But I think that the majority of the hospitals are absolutely not doing that. For example, in your area, at the military (system’s) center in Tianjin, I guess they don’t dare to do that, either!
(Recording 026. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 0026)
Investigation Recording 2019-029
Date: March 20, 2019 (+86-15198754968)
Subject(s): Doctor Li, Chief Surgeon of Liver Transplant, First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University
Summary:
Investigator: We’d better use a (Falun Gong) practitioner’s organ?
Doctor Li: Listen, listen. Your specific situation…you may let that…your specific situation…let the patient in Kunming come over to our hospital tomorrow morning, come to our program to find me. Okay? … You can come to either the Outpatient Clinic or the Inpatient Service. I’ll be in the Inpatient Service tomorrow. Just come over and find me.
(Recording 029. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 029)
Investigation Recording 2019-201
Date: March 26, 2019
Subject(s): Nurse1 and Nurse2, the Hepatobiliary Clinic, the First People’s Hospital of Kunming
Summary: Liver sources usually are victims of car accidents and relatively younger.
Investigator: Is there any donor from Falun Gong practitioners?
Someone unknown: I have not heard about that, mhm. (voice from someone else over there)
(Recording 201. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 201)
Investigation Recording 2019-039
Date: April 12, 2019（+86-13908526899）
Subject(s): Liang Guiyou, President of Guizhou Medical University and Former President of Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical School
Summary:
Investigator: Can it (the surgery) be done in half a month?
Liang Guiyou: Yes, yes, no problem.
Investigator: Can you find us a healthier, younger and better one (organ)?
Liang Guiyou: I can get it; I can find one.
Investigator: Can he find a practitioner (Falun Gong) donor for us?
Liang Guiyou: Ah! Listen, you go ask him to call my cell phone, okay?
(Recording 039. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 039)
Investigation Recording 2019-072
Date: July 25, 2019 （+86-13916915799）
Subject(s): Chen Litian, Director of Liver Transplant, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Summary:
1. We have the things (liver sources) you need for sure. But you have to come over first!
2. Investigator: “Can the surgery be done within one week?”
Director Chen Litian: “For sure it can be done!”
3. Investigator: “Quality is the most important. But I’m willing to pay a bit more, that’s no problem.”
Director Chen Litian: “Ah, sure!”
4. Investigator: “My former classmate told me to ask for an organ from a Falun Gong practitioner, like the one he used previously. Is that available right now?”
Director Chen Litian: “You bring me your files and let me take a look first, alright? The thing you just said is nonsense! Who can use those of Falun Gong practitioners? We only use state-sanctioned---normally donated organs.” … “(What your former classmate said is) impossible! I have never used that kind (of organs).” ... “We are a legitimate hospital and do not do those things!” ... “I have never heard of anyone donating Falun Gong people’s organs in this entire country. We do not have any livers from Falun Gong practitioners, and we do not have that kind of donors, so stop spouting nonsense! He was just making things up! Bullshit! Totally insane! None of us would use that kind of organs (from Falun Gong practitioners). Throughout the entire People’s Republican of China, the whole country, nationwide, nobody uses that kind of organs (from Falun Gong practitioners). He is totally nuts and out of his mind!”
(Recording 072. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 072)
Investigation Recording 2019-107
Date: September 27, 2019 (+86-7637788005)
Subject(s): Doctor Xu, Kidney Transplant, the First People’s Hospital, Changde, Hunan Province
Summary:
Investigator: So, are they young or what? I want a good one!
Dr. Xu: All kinds are available. But I can’t tell you. Ah, we will talk later. Don’t talk too much, okay?
Investigator: So, are they young or what? I want a good one!
Dr. Xu: All kinds are available. But I can’t tell you. Ah, we will talk later. Don’t talk too much, okay?
Investigator: I see. My friend mentioned that his father got (an organ) from a sort of practitioner. He said that the organs from Falun Gong practitioners are of good quality. Do you have such organs?
Dr. Xu: No, no, no, no!
Investigator: I see. So, we’ll talk about that when I come, okay?
Dr. Xu: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(Recording 107. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 107)
Investigation Recording 2019-114
Date: October 4, 2019 (+ 86-20-89168095)
Subject(s): Doctor Wang Xiao, Organ Transplant, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital
Summary:
Investigator: If I pay more money, I can find a doctor who is able to find a so-called qigong practitioner. Qigong practitioners are better, can we?
Doctor Wang: About that...about that...about that I am not quite sure. You can come and ask the doctors above us. Ah, because I never get involved in these things, I don’t have the power to be involved in them, either, okay? Because we, as subordinate doctors, just take care of the patients—yes, we deal with such things as the postoperative issues or preoperative check-ups— we only take care of these things for the patients. As for things like the tissue typing for a kidney transplant and how to coordinate the organ allocation, they’re not our business, and beyond our responsibilities.
(Recording 114. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 114)
Investigation Recording 2019-149
Date: November 8, 2019（+86-20-62782501）
Subject(s): Zhousong, Director of Organ Transplant Center, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University
Summary: The kidney must have passed the evaluation, so we could say it was qualified, not because it was from a Falun Gong practitioner, but it passed the qualification process. I cannot promise you that, because it’s inconvenient for me to talk about these things over the phone. You can come consult with us, all right? You can do that with our manager.
(Recording 149. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 149)
Investigation Recording 2019-165
Date: November 30, 2019 (+86-2152887170)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University
Summary:
Investigator: Do you still have that kind of organs from Falun Gong practitioners now?
Nurse: I do not know. You can ask one of the doctors, okay? .... Do not ask that kind (of questions) anymore.
Investigator: I just want to get it done using that kind of organs from Falun Gong practitioners.
Nurse: You go ask the doctor. I cannot answer this question for you!
(Recording 165. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 165)
Investigation Recording 2019-167
Date: December 3, 2019 (+ 86-21-31162866)
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Changhai Hospital Affiliated to the Second Military Medical University
Summary:
Investigator: Oh. I see. But I just have another question. As my classmate said, we eventually need to talk with the doctor about the organ source, that is to say, if we can meet, we can ask you to help us find a good one... He said that his father’s liver source was good because it happened to be someone who practiced Falun Gong. do you still have such liver sources available?
Doctor: When did we ever have those practicing Falun Gong? I never knew those things existed!
Investigator: He said yes, he said yes. One of his relatives recommended it to him, and it was good, of very good quality according to him.
Doctor: Impossible! We don’t have those things at all. They are nonsense! Acquiring those organs from the judicial channel have been stopped since a long time ago. Okay! Then I don’t know if your classmate had it done or not? What he said was purely nonsense. You can scold him when you see him.
Investigator: But he actually had it and told me that the results have been very good, and then recommended it to me.
Doctor: If the results are good, that has nothing to do with what you just said. As I told you, that is, the success of an operation is not much dependent upon the liver itself, but very much so on the patient’s whole physical condition, okay?
(Recording 167. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 167)
Investigation Recording 2019-176
Date: December 11, 2019 (+86-5368675806)
Subject(s): Doctor Zhu, Kidney Transplant, Weifang People’s Hospital, Shandong Province
Summary:
Investigator: For those donors of Falun Gong type, as they practice qigong, aren’t they healthy?
Doctor: Regarding that stuff, you…you…you just stop talking about it!
Investigator: If you promise me that, I will surely come over. Yes!
Doctor: What can I promise you? I cannot promise you that!
Investigator: Ah, you cannot promise that?
Doctor: I cannot promise you that. I’ve already let you pull back once, right?
Investigator: Oh?
Doctor: This, who can assure you! Doing that is already changing your fate, what else can I do?
(Recording 176. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 176)
Investigation Recording 2019-179
Date: December 13, 2019 (+86-15012755716)
Subject(s): Doctor Zeng, Liver Transplant, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital
Summary:
Investigator: Is it possible to find those donor livers from Falun Gong?
Dr. Zeng: Now there are no such livers. About those livers that we used before, we are not sure, either. I am not sure, either. Because when I got started in this business, this has been banned in the country starting from 2010. Now since we started in 2015, everything has been from donations.
Investigator: Are there any donor organs from Falun Gong at all now?
Dr. Zeng: I don’t know if there were any or not in the past. For the information from overseas, I can’t verify it. I’m not sure about how it made its way into the news, either. But for the time being, we …
Investigator: Some acquaintance got a donor liver from Falun Gong in PLA No. 302 Hospital.
Dr. Zeng: That I don’t know. We…I don’t care about those things in the past!
(Recording 179. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 179)
Investigation Recording 2019-190
Date: December 24, 2019 (+86-2985323900)
Subject(s): Nurse, Inpatient Service, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Summary:
Investigator: We want those donors such as Falun Gong practitioners. Is that possible?
Nurse: Regarding such a request, I cannot…how can I tell you? As for all the liver sources…we have the personnel dedicated to that, regarding the organs.
Investigator: If I want the Falun Gong donors, I can discuss with the doctor. Is that so?
Nurse: Eh, when the time comes, you can discuss that with the doctor. Anyway, regarding the liver source, you’ll need to discuss with the doctor!
(Recording 190. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 190)
Investigation Recording 2019-196
Date: December 26, 2019 (+ 86-15929931212)
Subjects: Li Guowei, Kidney Transplant Surgeon, Xijing Hospital Affiliated to the Air Force Medical University (aka the Fourth Military Medical University)
Summary: So there was no such thing as Falun Gong practitioners like you said at all. There is no such thing right now. It seems that since 2013 or 2014, this thing has stopped. Unless you have strong connections, very strong connections. Richer people all want to use this kind (of donors). If you caught up with the batch before 2013, and the effects of these transplants were very good.
(Recording 196. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 196)
7. The costs
The prices of organs are clearly marked: kidneys start at 100,000 yuan, and livers start at 200,000 yuan. There is no upper limit for transplant costs and transplants can even cost millions in some cases. This clearly indicates that organs for transplants in China are not voluntarily donated by citizens, since donated organs can’t go on sale.
A doctor on duty for inpatient service of Lingnan Hospital of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (+86-20-82179622): The costs mainly depend on post-operative recovery. In the best scenario, transplant surgery costs 400,000 to 500,000 yuan. ... Because the patients need to take anti-rejection medicine, then infections follow! He may need to stay in the ICU for a long time after the surgery. It costs 10,000 yuan per day at ICU. After being discharged from the hospital, for example, the follow-up visit starts once a week, and gradually becomes once a month. How to predict the cost of life-long medication after a transplant surgery?
A doctor of Shulan (Hangzhou) Hospital: The reason for huge differences in costs is that some people are in good physical condition and recover quickly. Those who stay at the hospital slightly more than a month can be discharged. Then the costs are not that high. Some people must stay in the ICU for a month or two months or even longer, then finally get out of the ICU, and it takes a long time to recover. That might be more than 500,000 to 600,000 yuan.
Professor Wei Lai, director of liver transplant, Tongji Hospital affiliated to Huazhong University of Science and Technology, clearly stated: “The starting price is 600,000 yuan, you can think about the surgery if you have 600,000 yuan, but it doesn’t mean that 600,000 yuan is enough for everything! There is no upper limit! All other questions can be discussed in person.”
In response to the cost issue, we selected 24 cases from 200 telephone investigation calls. The translations or investigation recordings are as follows:
Investigation Recording 2019-006
Date: February 22, 2019（+86-55162922034）
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Anhui Medical University
Summary: If the patient recovers smoothly, the transplant cost is well over 100,000 yuan. But that doesn’t include the cost for the kidney, which is over 100,000 yuan as well. The money paid for a donated organ goes to the Red Cross Society. It involves preservation and transportation costs of the organ.
(Recording 006. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 006)
Investigation Recording 2019-013
Date: March 7, 2019（+86-20-39318780）
Subject(s): Doctor and Nurse, Kidney Transplant, Guangdong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Summary: Inpatient hospitalization cost is around 200,000 yuan, excluding the costs for the kidney organ and other things.
(Recording 013. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 013)
Investigation Recording 2019-039
Date: April 12, 2019（+86-13908526899）
Subject(s): Liang Guiyou, President of Guizhou Medical University and Former President of Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical School
Summary: We currently charge around a little over 100,000 yuan, around 120,000 yuan. If that’s a problem, we’ll figure out something else.
(Recording 039. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 039)
Investigation Recording 2019-040
Date: April 13, 2019（+86-18585702691）
Subject(s): Li Daobing, Urology Surgeon, Affiliated Hospital, Zunyi Medical University
Summary: Our price is very cheap, very inexpensive. A kidney transplant costs about 60,000 yuan, somewhere from 50,000 to 60,000 yuan.
Our hospital is absolutely better than that of Guizhou Medical University!
(Recording 040. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 040)
Investigation Recording 2019-041
Date: April 14, （+86-28-85422925）
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, West China Hospital, Sichuan University
Summary: An allogeneic kidney is more than 100,000 yuan.
(Recording 041. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 041)
Investigation Recording 2019-043
Date: April 17, 2019（+86-371-67077512）
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Zhengzhou People's Hospital
Summary: For a single kidney, it’s about 180,000 yuan, and with the surgery cost, it is estimated at around 300,000 yuan in total.
(Recording 043. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 043)
Investigation Recording 2019-044
Date: April 18, 2019（+86-23-89012957）
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Sichuan
Summary: It costs around 300,000 yuan for a kidney transplant.
(Recording 044. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 044)
Investigation Recording 2019-046
Date: April 23, 2019（+86-898-66808472）
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, Second Urology Unit, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical University
Summary: A kidney transplant costs 400,000 to 500,000 yuan.
(Recording 046. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 046)
Investigation Recording 2019-064
Date: July 3, 2019（+86-351-4960139）
Subject(s): Doctor Yan, Liver Transplant, Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital
Summary: A donated liver is over 200,000 yuan, that’s the cost for a single liver. Including other costs, my estimate is more than 500,000 yuan in total.
(Recording 064. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 064)
Investigation Recording 2019-065
Date: July 4, 2019 (+86-3355360308)
Subject(s): Pei Xiangke, Kidney Transplant Surgeon, Beijing Military No. 281 Hospital
Summary: Priorities can be given to those who have their acquaintances with our doctors or director.
Investigator: Need to pay some extra money?
Pei Xiangke: Ah, yes, that’s the only way. You must prepare the money for the expenses.
Investigator: The cost for the surgery alone?
Pei Xiangke: Approximately over 300,000 yuan.
(Recording 065. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 065)
Investigation Recording 2019-105
Date: September 25, 2019（+86-737-4230527）
Subject(s): A Nurse & Doctor Zhang, Kidney Transplant, Yiyang Central Hospital, Hunan Province
Summary: The kidney procurement fee is 200,000 yuan, plus a hospitalization fee of 110,000 yuan. All of these are to be paid to the hospital and you will get a receipt. If the patient experiences postoperative rejection or infection, that prepaid hospitalization fee may not be enough.
(Recording 105. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 105)
Investigation Recording 2019-112
Date: October 2, 2019（+86-20-82179622）
Subject(s): Doctor, Inpatient Service, Lingnan Division, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Summary: It all depends how things go, as many factors are unpredictable, and it really depends on the (patient’s) condition at that time.
A liver transplant surgery costs 400,000 to 500,000 yuan in the best scenario. But more than 200,000 yuan of that total amount is for the liver alone, and the rest is for the treatments if things go smoothly. Because complications may occur following the surgery—such as infections, because the patient must take immune-suppressants, so infections are inevitable. He might have to stay in ICU for a long time after the surgery. The ICU care costs 100,000 yuan per day. The patient pays a follow-up visit after the discharge. It usually starts from once a week right, and gradually becomes once a month. Because he would have to take the medications for life, how could you make an estimate on the expenses for his life-long medications?
(Recording 112. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 112)
Investigation Recording 2019-123
Date: October 9, 2019 (+86-7712870303)
Subject(s) of Investigation: Doctor Li, Organ Transplant Inpatient Service, the
People’s Liberation Army Number 303 Hospital, Guangxi
Summary: Just the kidney alone costs 120,000 yuan. Total charge is around 300,000 yuan.
(Recording 123. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 123)
Investigation Recording 2019-121
Date: October 9, 2019 (+86-18999941314)
Subject(s): Ning Na, Contact Person for Organs, Hepatobiliary Surgery, the People's Hospital of Xinjiang Autonomous Region
Summary:
Investigator: Are the wait time and liver quality negotiable? Since the family is running a business, the cost is not a problem.
Ning Na: Ah, I know what you mean! I understand what you mean. If there is a suitable liver source available, the situation like yours will be given priority in our consideration! (Recipient has money)
Investigator: Is it possible to arrange his surgery before the end of the month?
Ning Na: Listen, give me a minute, and let me call our hospital... (inaudible) to see if he... (inaudible)
Investigator: I'll probably call you back in ten minutes. Is that okay with you?
Ning Na: Okay, that’s fine.
(Recording 121. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 121)
Investigation Recording 2019-129
Date: October 17, 2019 (+86-089866809122)
Subject(s): Doctor Liu, Organ Transplant, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical University
Summary: For the time being, we do liver transplants for locals only. A kidney transplant costs 500,000 (yuan); for a liver transplant, one million (yuan) has to be prepared. If any infection happens, then the cost will be higher for sure. If you want to know more details, I suggest that you come here and learn about it face-to-face. After all, it cannot be explained clearly over the phone.
(Recording 129. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 129)
Investigation Recording 2019-131
Date: October 18, 2019 (+86-85186774135)
Subject(s): Doctor Chen, Kidney Transplant, the Affiliated Hospital, Guizhou Medical University
Summary:
Investigator: How much does the kidney source cost for one transplant?
Doctor Chen: You need to come over here for consultation. No talking about this matter over the phone!
Investigator: No talking about that over the phone?
Doctor Chen: Got my point? Exactly!
(Recording 131. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 131)
Investigation Recording 2019-140
Date: October 29, 2019 (+86-156119082820)
Subject(s): Ma Lulin, Chief Physician, Kidney Transplant, Peking University Third Hospital
Summary:
Investigator: I’d like to inquire about the price?
Doctor Ma: I don’t know! I cannot tell over the phone!
(Recording 140. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 140)
Investigation Recording 2019-172
Date: December 10, 2019 (+86-13777816727)
Subject(s): Nurse, Referral Cooperation Office, Shulan (Hangzhou) Hospital
Summary: That’s why the cost varies a lot. Some patients have good physical conditions and recover quickly, and get discharged in just over a month, so they don’t spend much money on their post-op care. But some other patients have to spend one to two months, or even longer just in the ICU, and after that, they have to spend yet a long time staying in hospital for their recoveries. So, the total cost may exceed 500,000 or 600,000 yuan.
(Recording 172. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 172)
Investigation Recording 2019-181
Date: December 14, 2019 (+86-75561222333)
Subject(s): Nurse Cui, Inpatient Service Unit, Urology and Kidney Transplant, Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital
Summary: As for the cost, it seems like 300,000 to 400,000 yuan, as I saw the final bill for one of our patients last time. But I am only including the cost for our Inpatient Service, or possibly the fees incurred during hospitalization. I don’t know about other fees. Under normal situations, the cost could be 300,000 to 400,000 yuan. It can be done within 400,000 yuan. But for those specifics, I cannot…just cannot tell you in detail.
(Recording 181. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 181)
Investigation Recording 2019-189
Date: December 24, 2019 (+86-2985323955)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'An Jiaotong University
Summary: Bring your money and come to the outpatient clinic to make an appointment with one of the doctors from Kidney Transplant.
It's okay to just bring 15,000 for the first visit...bring the money first! You can make the payment at the outpatient clinic first. You can bring 15,000 or 20,000 yuan first, and then let the doctor make the assessment to determine if the surgery can be done, then we talk about the surgery later.
(Recording 189. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 189)
Investigation Recording 2019-193
Date: December 25, 2019 (+ 86-27-83665383)
Subject(s): Wei Lai, Professor and Director, Liver Transplant, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Summary: The starting point is 600,000 yuan is. That’s the minimum for such a surgery, but it does not mean that would be enough to cover it all. It has no upper limit, starting from 600,000 yuan! All the questions must be discussed in person specifically! I can’t give you my cell number. Come look for me in the surgery building, Building 23.
(Recording 193. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 193)
Investigation Recording 2019-196
Date: December 26, 2019 (+ 86-15929931212)
Subjects: Li Guowei, Kidney Transplant Surgeon, Xijing Hospital Affiliated to the Air Force Medical University (aka the Fourth Military Medical University)
Summary:
Investigator: When they did the tissue typing at Beijing No. 302 Hospital two years ago, it was 500,000 or 600,000 yuan for transplanting one kidney if things go well.
Li Guowei: Kidney resources in Shaanxi are the cheapest, because one costs 100,000 yuan, which is the cheapest. I know that it costs 350,000 yuan in Tianjin.
(Recording 196. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 196)
Investigation Recording 2019-197
Date: December 27, 2019（+86-0-25-68303180）
Subject(s): A Nurse and a doctor, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University
Summary: A transplant surgery is not a life-saving operation. If you only have 600,000 yuan, then we don’t recommend the surgery to you, unless the 600,000 yuan is just spare money at hand. But if you barely have 600,000 yuan and can only pay that much, then we don’t usually suggest you have the surgery, given that its purpose is to improve quality of life. But if you have to spend all your life savings on it, that’s not worth it!
Investigator: We’ve currently prepared 600,000 yuan to cover the expenses, if something unexpected happens, how much more do we need to pay?
Doctor: That surely happens! If a patient gets infected, the cost may go up to 1,000,000 yuan.
(Recording 197. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 197)
8. Name list
The persons who oversee transplants in all hospitals mainly are clinical presidents, communist party secretaries, directors, professors, OPO doctors, and organ specialists. Regarding the list of persons who are responsible for transplants, we selected 138 cases from 200 telephone investigation calls. Translations of recordings are as follows:
Investigation Recording 2019-001
Date: February 21, 2019 (+86-57455836149)
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, East Division, Ningbo Medical Center LiHuili Hospital
Summary: For specific questions, you may consult Director Lu Caide. I don't have his phone number. You can ask him when you go to the outpatient clinic on Wednesday mornings.
(Recording 001. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 001)
Investigation Recording 2019-002
Date: February 21, 2019 (+86-55162283783)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Anhui Provincial Hospital
Summary: For detailed information, you need to check with Director Liu Hongtao. There is a German surgeon who has been doing the transplant surgeries.
(Recording 002. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 002)
Investigation Recording 2019-003
Date: February 21, 2019 (+86-13518815588)
Subject(s): Nurse, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Shulan (Hangzhou) Hospital
Summary: The liver transplants are done by Zheng Shusen himself here. He’s been doing it all year round, with no holidays.
(Recording 003. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 003)
Investigation Recording 2019-006
Date: February 22, 2019（+86-55162922034）
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Anhui Medical University
Summary: Make an online appointment directly with Director Liao Guiyi. He is the director of the transplant inpatient service.
(Recording 006. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 006)
Investigation Recording 2019-007
Date: February 22, 2019 (+86-371-66862191)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou
University
Summary: Contact Director Feng Guiwen for details.
(Recording 007. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 007)
Investigation Recording 2019-008
Date: February 26, 2019（+86-371-67077358）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou
Summary: Miao Shuzhai is our director, the director of the liver transplant team.
(Recording 008. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 008)
Investigation Recording 2019-009
Date: March 4, 2019（+86-29-85323900）
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital,
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Summary: Director is Wang Bo. Right now, all professors are doing it.
(Recording 009. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 009)
Investigation Recording 2019-015
Date: March 8, 2019（+86-1057976858）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Armed Police General Hospital
Summary: Director Chen Xingguo still does it now.
(Recording 015. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 015)
Investigation Recording 2019-019
Date: March 13, 2019 (+86-22-23626857)
Subject (s): Doctor Li and Director Guo Qingjun, Liver Transplant, Tianjin First Central Hospital
Summary: Jiang Wentao is a chief director of the entire organ transplant center. He does all the surgeries.
(Recording 019. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 019)
Investigation Recording 2019-020
Date: March 13, 2019 (+86-13752453120)
Subject(s): Mo Chunbai, Director of Kidney Transplant, Tianjin First Central Hospital
Summary: For a large transplant center like ours, with so many cases done, quality assessment is our most important step among others. … If failure often occurs, this center wouldn’t survive. It would have been closed!
(Recording 020. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 020)
Investigation Recording 2019-021
Date: March 13, 2019 (+ 86-371-66231417)
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Henan University of Chinese Medicine
Summary: Still Director Wang, Wang Guangce has been doing it.
(Recording 021. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 021)
Investigation Recording 2019-022
Date: March 13, 2019（+86-371-60652182）
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant Center, the People’s Liberation Army No.153 Hospital
Summary: We’ve done quite a lot of kidney transplants; and did over 100 cases last year. Our director has been doing it all along.
Investigator: May I have the director’s phone number so that I can contact him directly?
Doctor: He happens on a business trip; I can give it to you another time.
(Recording 022. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 022)
Investigation Recording 2019-024
Date: March 15, 2019（+86-22-23626857）
Subject(s): Li Jiang, Deputy Chief Physician, Liver Transplant, Tianjin First Center Hospital
Summary: We have so many, so many, so many directors...Jiang Wentao has done a lot more than he (Pan Cheng)!
(Recording 024. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 024)
Investigation Recording 2019-027
Date: March 19, 2019 (+86-898-66809311)
Subject(s): Zhang Shanbin, Lead Surgeon of Kidney Transplant, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical College
Summary:
1. Nurse: Dr. Zhang Guoqing is retired, and now Dr. Zhang Shanbin has been
doing the surgeries.
2. Zhang Shanbin: It (the transplant surgery) can be done in just four or five days
after his examination is done during hospitalization.
(Recording 027. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 027)
Investigation Recording 2019-032
Date: March 22, 2019 (+86-15877991051)
Subject(s): Chen Gang, Chief Physician, Live Transplant, the First People's Hospital of Kunming
Summary: I no longer work as a transplant surgeon right now, but I can refer a doctor to you if you have a patient.
(Recording 032. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 032)
Investigation Recording 2019-034
Date: March 27, 2019（+86-991-4363774）
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xinjiang Medical University
Summary: There is always a shortage of beds for transplant patients in our division. You can have the surgery in a couple of weeks if lucky. Here is Dr. Jiang Tieming’s number: 423 199 9920 8530. His team has done quite a lot (of surgeries), with fairly mature skills.
(Recording 034. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 034)
Investigation Recording 2019-037
Date: April 4, 2019（+86-29-84771095）
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant, Xijing Hospital Affiliated to Fourth Military Medical University
Summary: We have done many liver transplant surgeries! Director Yang Shaoxu is still working here. We’re about to perform a liver transplant surgery tonight; the patient is only 15 years old. The patient has just arrived; Director Yang is not here yet.
(Recording 037. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 037)
Investigation Recording 2019-038
Date: April 8, 2019（+86-2985323955）
Subject(s): Two Nurses, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Summary: All six of our professors do the surgeries. You can go ask Director Xiang to do it for you.
(Recording 038. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 038)
Investigation Recording 2019-039
Date: April 12, 2019（+86-13908526899）
Subject(s): Liang Guiyou, President of Guizhou Medical University and Former President of Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical School
Summary: I no longer work at the hospital; I’m the president of Guizhou Medical University now. Listen, you go ask him to call my cell phone, okay?
(Recording 039. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 039)
Investigation Recording 2019-042
Date: April 17, 2019 (+86-10-839971770)
Subject (s): Nurse, Hepatobiliary Surgery Inpatient Service, Beijing YouAn Hospital
Summary: Director Wang Menglong is from the Second Laboratory of HepatobiliarySurgery. He does liver transplants as the lead surgeon. Inpatient service is currently full. You have to ask for him.
(Recording 042. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 042)
Investigation Recording 2019-044
Date: April 18, 2019（+86-23-89012957）
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Sichuan
Summary: You first need to go to the 12th floor of No. 2 Building and find Professor Liang Simin to get registered. The bed supply is tight now. He’s the one in charge of this area in our hospital, including liver and kidney surgeries.
I can’t give you his cell phone number. You’ll have to go find him at the inpatient service.
(Recording 044. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 044)
Investigation Recording 2019-045
Date: April 22, 2019 (+86-7712870303）
Subject(s): Huang Huaping, Director of Liver Transplant, Chinese People’s Liberation Army
No. 303 Hospital
Summary: We do about 300 cases a year for liver and kidney transplants, rest including pancreatic, lung transplants—we do them all.
(Recording 045. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 045)
Investigation Recording 2019-048
Date: May 11, 2019（+86-13382061338）
Subject (s): Wang Xuan, Director of Liver Transplant Center, the Chinese People's Liberation Army No. 81 Hospital, Nanjing
Summary: We do not do that many cases here, but we guarantee the quality of what we do. These surgeries are quite common, and we do several dozens of cases each year.
(Recording 048. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 048)
Investigation Recording 2019-049
Date: May 28, 2019 (+86-13907342350)
Subject(s): Luo Zhigang, President of the Second Hospital, University of South China
Summary: I have participated in all kidney transplants conducted here at this hospital, so you can rest assured. That I can promise you!
(Recording 049. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 049)
Investigation Recording 2019-050
Date: May 31, 2019（+86-736-7788113）
Subject (s): Doctor Deng Zhiming, the First People's Hospital of Changde City, Hunan
Summary: Regarding kidney transplant, you need to check with Director Zhu---Zhu Huachen.
(Recording 050. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 050)
Investigation Recording 2019-052
Date: June 10, 2019 (+ 86-371-67967126)
Subject(s): Nurse Wang, Liver Transplant Nurses’ Station, the First Affiliated
Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Henan
Summary: Director Guo Wenzhi is the chief surgeon and has done more cases over the past two years.
(Recording 052. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 052)
Investigation Recording 2019-054
Date: June 10, 2019 (+86-531-68776161)
Subject (s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Urology, Shandong Provincial Hospital
Summary: Meng Huiling, Director Meng, is in charge of the kidney transplants here. He works at the outpatient clinic all day on Wednesdays.
(Recording 054. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 054)
Investigation Recording 2019-055
Date: June 11, 2019（+86-371-60652180）
Subject(s): Doctor Tang, Kidney Transplant, Jinan Military No.153 Hospital
Summary: I’m not sure about the price, please ask the Qiu director.
(Recording 055. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 055)
Telephone Investigation Recording 2019-057
Date: June 20, 2019 (+86-10-85231504)
Subject (s) of Investigation: Doctor Xu, Liver Transplant, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital
Summary:
1. The best surgeon in our division definitely is Director He. He does not take on any patients at
the outpatient clinic, but he does the surgeries.
2. You may talk to Director Fan Huafan tomorrow, telling him that Doctor Xu sent you.
3. Director Lang Ren will be there on Monday.
(Recording 057. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 057)
Investigation Recording 2019-058
Date: June 24, 2019（+86-13693686031）
Subject(s): Li Chuanyun, Associate Chief Physician, Liver Transplant, Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University
Summary: I’m the lead surgeon and the director. Wang Menglong is in another team of our division. He has one team; I have another team. We have a total of five teams.
(Recording 058. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 058)
Investigation Recording 2019-060
Date: June 28, 2019（+86-18661800166）
Subject(s): Zang Yunjin, Director of Liver Transplant Center, Affiliated Hospital, Qingdao University
Summary: I work at the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University. Now no longer performing transplant operations at the Armed Police General Hospital, I’ve already left that Hospital. You can only find me on Mondays.
We won’t answer any calls from the Internet, Falun Gong, or abroad.
(Recording 060. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 060)
Investigation Recording 2019-062
Date: July 2, 2019 (+86-31188603029)
Subject(s): Zhao Xin, Associate Chief Physician and Associate Professor, Liver Transplant Outpatient Clinic, the Third Hospital, Hebei Medical University
Summary: Dou Jian (Chief Physician, Professor) comes to the outpatient clinic on Monday
Mornings; Zhao Xin (Associate Chief Physician, Associate Professor) comes to the outpatient clinic on Tuesdays. Director Gao comes to the outpatient clinic on Wednesdays.
(Recording 062. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 062)
Investigation Recording 2019-063
Date: July 2, 2019 (+86-15131104229)
Subject(s): Lu Baosai, Associate Chief Physician, Urinary Surgery Center, the Second Hospital, Hebei Medical University
Summary: How come that it shows a phone number from abroad? Who did refer you? The wait time is within half a year for a patient of blood type A.
(Recording 063. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 063)
Investigation Recording 2019-064
Date: July 3, 2019（+86-351-4960139）
Subject(s): Doctor Yan, Liver Transplant, Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital
Summary: Zhang Yuhong is an associate chief physician, and he is the one doing organ transplants. He is at the hospital before 9 am on weekdays, Monday through Friday.
(Recording 064. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 064)
Investigation Recording 2019-067
Date: July 1st, 2019（+86-351-4639507）
Subject(s): Doctor Wang Zhiming, Liver Transplant Center, First Hospital, Shanxi Medical University
Summary: Guo Jianshen is the director and the president of our hospital. You can come
see him at the inpatient service directly. You can make an appointment with Director Wei Zhigang at the outpatient
clinic. Director Guo and Director Wei always work together in performing the liver transplant surgeries.
(Recording 067. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 067)
Investigation Recording 2019-068
Date: July 8, 2019 (+86-13904722662)
Subject(s): Zhang Shengbin, Director of Hepatobiliary Surgery Center, Vice
President of Bao Gang Hospital, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Inner Mongolia Medical University
Summary: Only our hospital can do it in the entire Inner Mongolia. Other hospitals can’t do it. We got it started in 2004.
(Recording 068. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 068)
Investigation Recording 2019-070
Date: July 11, 2019 (+86-2428851211)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant, Shenyang Military Region General Hospital
Summary: Director Yang Kunwei is in charge of the kidney transplants. Come to make an appointment with a specialist at the clinic on the second floor on Thursday morning. Director Yang will be there.
(Recording 070. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 070)
Investigation Recording 2019-071
Date: July 24, 2019（+86-21-64370045-666701）
Subject(s): Li Tao, Associate Chief Physician, Hepatobiliary Surgical Division, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Summary: I’m also a surgeon in liver transplant; you can come see me! I’m Li Tao from the general surgical division and come to the specialist outpatient clinic on Fridays. Come here quickly, come here quickly, come here quickly, let's talk in person! Please write down my cell number: 18621830659. Come over here, and we will discuss it in detail then, all right.
(Recording 071. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 071)
Investigation Recording 2019-072
Date: July 25, 2019 （+86-13916915799）
Subject(s): Chen Litian, Director of Liver Transplant, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Summary: I have done many surgeries.
(Recording 072. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 072)
Investigation Recording 2019-073
Date: July 31, 2019 (+86-21-68383735)
Subject (s): Doctor, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Summary: Director Xu Ming is at the specialist outpatient clinic on Monday afternoons. You can come see Doctor Lu at the outpatient clinic on Friday mornings. Doctor Lu and Director Xu Ming are in the same team.
(Recording 073. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 073)
Investigation Recording 2019-074
Date: August 2, 2019（+86-25-83718836）
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant, Jiangsu Province Hospital
Summary: You certainly need to look for a director to do the transplant, and you can make an appointment with Zhang Feng or Li Xiangcheng to consult about your case. We do have quite a few directors here. As for who does more cases, Zhang Feng does more, so you can make an appointment with him. Wang Xuehao is our academician.
(Recording 074. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 074)
Investigation Recording 2019-075
Date: August 5, 2019（+86-25-83718836）
Subject (s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Jiangsu Province Hospital
Summary: You just come visit our kidney transplant outpatient clinic, and make an appointment with Director Han, Director Han Zhijian. He’s an expert in kidney transplants.
(Recording 075. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 075)
Investigation Recording 2019-076
Date: August 5, 2019（+86-15286819833）
Subject(s): Hu Bowen, Chief Physician, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
Summary: We have five lead surgeons in total. For both this year and last year, the annual volume of the cases performed is a little over 300
(Recording 076. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 076)
Investigation Recording 2019-077
Date: August 6, 2019 (+86-02552271000)
Subject(s): Nurse, Urology Surgery Outpatient Clinic, Nanjing First Hospital
Summary: Our hospital cannot do kidney transplantation. (This hospital is not qualified for kidney transplantation) Are you sure that Jia Ruipeng did it? Let me go ask him. The nurse replied after a short while: On Thursday afternoon or Monday morning, you may come directly to Director Jia’s specialist clinic and bring the patient and the materials with you. He will take a look (at them) for you.
(Recording 077. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 077)
Investigation Recording 2019-078
Date: August 7, 2019（+86-791-86895527）
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital
Summary: More than 80 cases have been done at this hospital this year. Director Li Xinchang is in charge of the kidney transplants here.
(Recording 078. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 078)
Investigation Recording 2019-080
Date: August 9, 2019 (+ 86-571-87783777)
Subject(s): Nurse, the Urology Surgery Inpatient Service, Binjiang Division, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Summary: We have done many surgeries. Come consult Director Xiao at the outpatient clinic. As they’re all managed by him, we don't know about these things! He can only be found while he is at the clinic, as he has surgeries all other times.
(Recording 080. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 080)
Investigation Recording 2019-082
Date: August 16, 2019（+86-551-62923191）
Subject(s): Surgeon, Hepatobiliary Surgical Division, the First Affiliated Hospital, Anhui Medical University
Summary: Zhao Hongchuan is our director.
(Recording 082. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 082)
Investigation Recording 2019-083
Date: August 23, 2019 (+86-53182166691)
Subject(s): Doctor Wang, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University
Summary: For liver transplantation, please go find Director Zhu Min and Professor Liu Chongzhong. Now they do lots of cases.
(Recording 083. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 083)
Investigation Recording 2019-084
Date: August 23, 2019 (+86-79188694129)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University
Summary: All our (cases) are done by one doctor. They are all done by President Shi Jun. If you want to get an organ transplant done, you need to go to the 18th floor of the building outside of ours.
(Recording 084. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 084)
Investigation Recording 2019-086
Date: August 26, 2019 (+86-18661803627)
Subject(s): Wang Xin, Associate Chief Physician, Liver Transplant, Laoshan Division, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University
Summary: (I’m at) Liver Transplant on the 16th floor of Building 2, Laoshan Division, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University.
Investigator: Can it be done in half a month?
Wang Xin: There shouldn’t be a major problem.
(Recording 086. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 086)
Investigation Recording 2019-087
Date: August 27, 2019 (+ 86-531-85875405)
Subject(s): Nurse, Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Second Hospital, Shandong University
Summary: Dong Jiahong normally is absent. He is asked to come over when there is an operation. He may come here if there is an operation. Call Director Li Hailin, and he is the only professor in the office.
(Recording 087. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 087)
Investigation Recording 2019-088
Date: August 27, 2019 (+ 86-0531-85875621)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant, the Second Hospital, Shandong University
Summary: For a kidney transplant, come see our program director, Director Wang Hongwei. Wang Hongwei is the lead surgeon. You can discuss with the director about the wait time.
(Recording 088. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 088)
Investigation Recording 2019-089
Date: August 27, 2019 (+ 86-531-89268575)
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital
Summary: I do not know anything about these things! Come make an appointment with Director Men, Men Tongyi, at the outpatient clinic, and ask him. Director Men comes to the clinic on Wednesdays and Tuesdays, or rather, on Tuesday mornings and all day on Wednesdays.
(Recording 089. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 89)
Investigation Recording 2019-090
Date: August 30, 2019 (+ 86-531-51666221)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant, Jinan Military General Hospital
Summary:
Investigator: Do you do it here at your hospital?
Nurse: Yes, we do! Our director’s gone to an operation now, you can just come to make an appointment with Director Chen at the hepatobiliary surgery clinic on Monday.
(Recording 090. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 090)
Investigation Recording 2019-091
Date: August 30, 2019 (+86-53151665930)
Subject(s): Two Nurses, the Outpatient Clinic, Kidney Transplant, the PLA No. 161 Hospital
Summary: If you want to see Director Zhang Aimin, come visit the outpatient clinic next Friday.
(Recording 091. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 091)
Investigation Recording 2019-093
Date: September 2, 2019 (+86-37167967126)
Subject(s): Nurse Yan, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University
Summary: Zhang Shuijun has been promoted one level up, and he’s the party secretary now. It’s fine to just go to the director. Come talk to Director Guo Wenzhi at 8 or 9 am tomorrow morning.
(Recording 093. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 093)
Investigation Recording 2019-095
Date: September 10, 2019 (+86-53182169449)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University
Summary: Our center is for liver transplants, and our director specializes in liver transplant. Go to the outpatient clinic to look for Director Zhu Min.
(Recording 095. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 095)
Investigation Recording 2019-096
Date: September 11, 2019（+86-2783665223）
Subject(s): Chen Dong, Chief Physician, Organ Transplant, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Summary: Our hospital does the surgeries almost every day. Doctors Chen Zhishui and Chen Dong are in the same group. We do about 150 cases a year.
(Recording 096. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 096)
Investigation Recording 2019-097
Date: September 12, 2019 (+ 86-571-87236617)
Subject(s): Doctor Zheng, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Summary: You can also come to him (Zheng Shusen), on Monday mornings.
(Recording 097. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 097)
Investigation Recording 2019-098
Date: September 18, 2019 (+86-2767812959)
Subject(s): Nurse, Second Inpatient Service Section, Hepatobiliary Clinic, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University
Summary: We are the same hospital (Hepatobiliary Hospital), specializing in transplantation. We are the Hepatobiliary Research Transplantation Center. There are only two directors who can do it. One is Ye Qiran, who’s been doing it.
(Recording 098. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 098)
Investigation Recording 2019-099
Date: September 19, 2019 (+86-15827155019)
Subject(s): Yuan Wenyong, Associate Chief Physician, Hepatobiliary Disease Research Institute, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University
Summary: Tomorrow morning, you may bring his file to see me at our hospital outpatient clinic—the 10th clinic, in the surgical section on the 4th floor. If he’s lucky, he can have it done upon his admission here. We did over 100 cases last year.
(Recording 099. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 099)
Investigation Recording 2019-102
Date: September 20, 2019 (+ 86-7198272407)
Subject(s): Doctor Li Quanyuan, Kidney Transplant, Dongfeng General Hospital, Hubei
Summary: Whether you need the tissue typing, get in the queue, or get sick—all this has nothing to do with me. I only take care of the surgeries. My surname is Li, but my phone number cannot be given to you!
(Recording 102. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 102)
Investigation Recording 2019-103
Date: September 24, 2019 (+86-55162284792)
Subject(s): Doctor, the Second Inpatient Service Section, Liver Transplant, South Division, Anhui Provincial Hospital
Summary: German Prof. Nashan did about 2,500 to 3,000 cases previously. About 50 cases have been done (by Prof. Nashan) here since the end of 2017. If Prof. Nanshan is absent, sometimes President Liu (Liu Lianxin) does it.
(Recording 103. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 103)
Investigation Recording 2019-104
Date: September 24, 2019 (+86-73189753702)
Subject(s) of Investigation: Two Doctors including Doctor Zhu, Kidney Transplant, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University
Summary: I am in the same team as Director Xie Jingliang.
(Recording 104. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 104)
Investigation Recording 2019-105
Date: September 25, 2019（+86-737-4230527）
Subject(s): A Nurse & Doctor Zhang, Kidney Transplant, Yiyang Central Hospital, Hunan Province
Summary: Please come see Director Ding Shouning for kidney transplant.
(Recording 105. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 105)
Investigation Recording 2019-106
Date: September 27, 2019, （+86-734-8899683）
Subject(s): Nurse, Inpatient Service, Kidney Transplant Center, the Second Hospital, University of South China
Summary: Both Director (Li Jianjun) and President Luo (Luo Zhigang) are lead surgeons for kidney transplant. Doctor Tan is our expert specialist of kidney transplant division. Doctor Tan's mobile phone number is 15073407320.
(Recording 106. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 106)
Investigation Recording 2019-107
Date: September 27, 2019 (+86-7637788005)
Subject(s): Doctor Xu, Kidney Transplant, the First People’s Hospital, Changde, Hunan Province
Summary: Director Zhu Huachen is one of the surgeons.
(Recording 107. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 107)
Investigation Recording 2019-108
Date: September 30, 2019 (+86-2082379475)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Huangpu Division, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Summary:
1. You can register for an appointment with Director Jiao, Jiao Xingyuan, who goes to the clinic on Fridays.
2. The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University has a few divisions. We are the Huangpu Division.
3. He Xiaoshun and Zhu Xiaofeng are both doing liver transplantation. He is in our division, while Zhu is in the main division.
(Recording 108. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 108)
Investigation Recording 2019-109
Date: September 30, 2019 (+86-2061641706)
Subject(s): Lin Jianhua, Associate Chief Physician and Associate Professor, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University
Summary: To wait for a liver donor, it sometimes takes just a few days if lucky. But that’s hard to say. I am the lead surgeon, to say nothing of my technical skills! He can go to the No. 1 professors’office to see me.
(Recording 109. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 109)
Investigation Recording 2019-112
Date: October 2, 2019（+86-20-82179622）
Subject(s): Doctor, Inpatient Service, Lingnan Division, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Summary: Director Yi Shuhong does that every day—one to two cases each day. He did two cases just yesterday. Director Yi has started doing liver transplants since 2002.
(Recording 112. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 112)
Investigation Recording 2019-111
Date: October 01, 2019, （+86-20-81292162）
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Inpatient Service, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
Summary: Guo Xuekun can do it. He takes on no patients at the clinic but does the operations only. Usually he does those operations. He does all kidney transplants here.
(Recording 111. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 111)
Investigation Recording 2019-113
Date: October 2, 2019（+86-20-38688524）
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University
Summary: We usually do several dozens of cases a year and have been doing that for more than ten years. Generally, the director is the chief surgeon. It is Director Ding Hongwen who does the surgeries.
(Recording 113. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 113)
Investigation Recording 2019-114
Date: October 4, 2019 (+ 86-20-89168095)
Subject(s): Doctor Wang Xiao, Organ Transplant, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital
Summary: Our director’s surname is Liu, Director Liu Dong.
(Recording 114. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 114)
Investigation Recording 2019-115
Date: October 4, 2019 (+ 86-760-89880585)
Subject(s): Nurse, the Transplant Program, Zhongshan City People's Hospital
Summary: Our program director is Gong Chaoyang. He has been doing it for many years. We have done a lot of cases here at our hospital every year.
(Recording 115. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 115)
Investigation Recording 2019-118
Date: October 9, 2019 (+86-7712870303)
Subject(s): Nurse, Organ Transplant Inpatient Service, Chinese People’s Liberation Army No. 303 Hospital, Guangxi Province
Summary: Sun Xuyong is our former director. He is now with the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University. But if we have something that requires his attention over here, he also comes over. Director Dong Jianhui is currently our director over here.
(Recording 118. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 118)
Investigation Recording 2019-119
Date: October 9, 2019 (+86-07712870635)
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Chinese People's Liberation Army No.303 Hospital, Nanning, Guangxi Province
Summary: Sun Xuyong works here, but you usually can’t find him. He is an expert at the president level.
We do have a lot of other young talented doctors who work under him and are available for you. You can go to Lan Liugen, Wu Jihua, or Wang Hongliang. They are all liver transplant experts.
(Recording 119. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 119)
Investigation Recording 2019-123
Date: October 9, 2019 (+86-7712870303)
Subject(s) of Investigation: Doctor Li, Organ Transplant Inpatient Service, the People’s Liberation Army Number 303 Hospital, Guangxi
Summary: I participate in the operations, but I am not the chief surgeon. Please directly come to the clinic for registration. Those that come to the clinic are all directors. Our director, surnamed Dong, is called Dong Jianhui.
(Recording 123. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 123)
Investigation Recording 2019-124
Date: October 14, 2019 (+86-9114364529)
Subject(s): Two Doctors, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xinjiang Medical University
Summary: Both Director Bai and Director Mi are the directors in charge of liver transplantation here.
Dr. Bai just performed a liver transplant yesterday. If you call him now, you may not get through. If you trust us and want to get it done here, we can help you here, you know?
(Recording 124. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 124)
Investigation Recording 2019-125
Date: October 15, 2019 (+86-02885422925)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, West China Hospital, Sichuan University
Summary: Here we have quite a few doctors: Lin Tao, Wang Li, Fan Yu, and Huang Zhongli—they have their transplant teams.
(Recording 125. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 125)
Investigation Recording 2019-126
Date: October 15, 2019 (+86-89866808103)
Subject(s): Nurse, General Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical University
Summary: Our hospital does (kidney transplants) for sure. Our hospital does the best job at those surgeries. Our hospital does quite a lot of kidney transplants, more than other transplants. On Saturday, there are doctors at the clinic too.
(Recording 126. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 126)
Investigation Recording 2019-127
Date: October 15, 2019 (+86-13658361082)
Subject(s): Zhang Keqin, Professor and Director of Urology and Nephrology Center, Jiangnan Division, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Sichuan
Summary: How come your number is…? I’m here Monday through Friday. If the patient comes—you take note of the address: Jiangnan Division, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University.
(Recording 127. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 127)
Investigation Recording 2019-128
Date: October 16, 2019 (+86-2887393707)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital
Summary: For liver transplants, the patients need to register for Director Yang Hongji’s appointments at the outpatient clinic. The hospital has specific deployment staff members for organ transplants.
(Recording 128. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 128)
Investigation Recording 2019-132
Date: October 18, 2019（+86-85186774319）
Subject(s): Doctor Chen, Liver Transplant, the Affiliated Hospital, Guizhou Medical University
Summary: Director Zhu Haotao is the specialist at the liver transplant outpatient clinic on Monday morning. The lead surgeon in our clinic is the president, President Zuo.
(Recording 132. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 132)
Investigation Recording 2019-133
Date: October 18, 2019 (+86-951-6743245)
Subject(s): Nurse, Hepatobiliary Surgery, General Hospital, Ningxia Medical University
Summary: Yu Songning is the director of Liver Transplant. Director Yu is the one in charge of things such as admission arrangements, scheduling, and fees and expenses. he’s at the second section of our Hepatobiliary, which is located on the 11th floor. You may call 6745060 and then ask for Director Yu specifically.
(Recording 133. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 133)
Investigation Recording 2019-134
Date: October 18, 2019（+86-23-89012554）
Subject(s): Doctor, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Sichuan
Summary: Director Liang Simin is a lead surgeon. You go make an appointment with Director Liang on Tuesday.
(Recording 134. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 134)
Investigation Recording 2019-135
Date: October 19, 2019 (+86-85128623430)
Subject(s): Nurse, Nephrology Clinic, Affiliated Hospital, Zunyi Medical University
Summary: The director of Nephrology Transplant is Liang Guobiao. Hu Tingting of Nephrology Clinic is fully in charge of our transplant business. She is one of the best surgeons here and studying at West China Hospital (of Sichuan University) in Chengdu
(Recording 135. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 135)
Investigation Recording 2019-136
Date: October 22, 2019 (+86-85185258229)
Subject(s): A Nurse, 3rd Hepatobiliary Division, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital
Summary: Go directly to the director’s office on the 5th floor of the Surgical Building, where you can find Director Zhang, Director Zhang Yi. Many cases, actually most of our liver transplants, are done by Director Zhang. He has been with our hospital for years.
(Recording 136. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 136)
Investigation Recording 2019-137
Date: October 23, 2019（+86-871-68261904）
Subject(s): Nurse, the Hepatobiliary Inpatient Service, the First People’s Hospital of Kunming
Summary: Chen Gang is the director. Liver transplant surgeries are done by a team, not just one surgeon. Everyone in the team must work together performing the surgeries.
(Recording 137. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 137)
Investigation Recording 2019-138
Date: October 29, 2019 (+86-2158752345)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, East Division, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Summary: Director Zhang goes to the outpatient clinic on Thursday morning. You may tell him to come to the director's outpatient clinic, so the doctor can learn about his case. Doctor Zhang Ming, as you just mentioned, is the authoritative kidney transplant surgeon. You can go talk to him directly. I cannot give you his cell number.
(Recording 138. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 138)
Investigation Recording 2019-139
Date: October 29, 2019（+86-931-8943714）
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Lanzhou University Second Hospital
Summery: We have a dedicated secretary in charge of kidney transplants. If you want a kidney transplant, you can make an appointment and consult with our Director Yang Li at his kidney transplant specialist outpatient clinic, on Wednesday afternoons.
(Recording 139. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 139)
Investigation Recording 2019-140
Date: October 29, 2019 (+86-156119082820)
Subject(s): Ma Lulin, Chief Physician, Kidney Transplant, Peking University Third Hospital
Summary:
Investigator: Ah, relatively small? His doctor said that he has blood type B, which may make it easy for the tissue typing. I wonder if his tissue typing can be done at your hospital.
Doctor Ma: Well, let’s do this: come to my outpatient clinic next Monday morning! Next Monday morning.
Investigator: I’d like to inquire about the price?
Doctor Ma: I don’t know! I cannot tell over the phone!
(Recording 140. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 140)
Investigation Recording 2019-141
Date: November 1, 2019 (+86-571-87236711)
Subject(s): Nurse, the Hemodialysis Unit, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Summary: Go ask for Doctor Xie who oversees kidney transplants. Doctor Xie would know. He has a pretty good idea about that (i.e. kidney wait time). All (kidney transplant) patients get registered through him, and they are then placed on the waiting list for kidney sources. We do a lot of (liver) surgeries in the province (in comparison with the other hospitals). Zheng Shuseng spearheaded liver transplants here—he established the team and built it up—he is our former president. Our hospital’s (communist party committee) Secretary Liang Tingbo leads the team and does many surgeries right now.
(Recording 141. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 141)
Investigation Recording 2019-145
Date: November 6, 2019 (+86-371670777263)
Subject(s): Liang Shaofeng, Associate Chief Physician, Organ Transplant Center, Zhengzhou People’s Hospital
Summary: That is our Director Qu. We also have another director, Director Miao. My last name is Liang. I am in the outpatient clinic today. (Associate Chief Physician Liang Shaofeng of Kidney Transplant)
(Recording 145. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 145)
Investigation Recording 2019-147
Date: November 6, 2019 (+86-53282913223)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant, Organ Transplant Center, the Affiliated
Hospital, Qingdao University
Summary: Here in our center, the surgeries are all done by Director Dong. He comes to his
clinic on Wednesdays.
(Recording 147. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 147)
Investigation Recording 2019-149
Date: November 8, 2019（+86-20-62782501）
Subject(s): Zhousong, Director of Organ Transplant Center, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern
Medical University
Summary: Zhao Ming is our director, and I’m in Guo Yin’s team. We have three teams in total.
(Recording 149. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 149)
Investigation Recording 2019-152
Date: November 19, 2019 (+ 86-1085231504)
Subject(s): Doctor on Duty, Liver Transplant, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital
Summary: All operations are performed by the chief director of the center, Director He Qiang. He has been doing it for many years. You don’t have to, you don’t need to make such a request specifically, as all liver transplants are conducted by Director He.
(Recording 152. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 152)
Investigation Recording 2019-153
Date: November 19, 2019 (+86-85186773015)
Subject(s): Nurse, Inpatient Service Second Section, Hepatology Surgery, the Affiliated Hospital, Guizhou Medical University
Summary: Right now, liver transplants are done mostly by Zuo Shi.Zuo Shi is responsible for the liver transplantation here. He is the vice president of the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University. He also offers the special need clinic. Hepatology Surgery has a team doing liver transplants. President Zuo is responsible for this team now. All the operations are conducted by the chief director of the center, do you understand?
(Recording 153. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 153)
Investigation Recording 2019-154
Date: November 20, 2019 (+86-7715356528)
Subject(s) of Investigation: Nurse, First Inpatient Service Section, Hepatobiliary
Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University
Summary: Two Directors: That senior Director Peng is Peng Minhao, and that junior Director Peng is Peng Tao. Director Shang (Shang Liming, Associate Chief Physician) works at the Second Inpatient Section. He also does the transplant surgeries.
(Recording 154. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 154)
Investigation Recording 2019-155
Date: November 22, 2019 (+ 86-13956007036)
Subject(s): Hu Hejie, Chief Physician, General Surgery, Anhui Provincial Hospital
Summary: I quit doing it a long time ago, at least ten years ago! A German professor named Nashan conducts the surgeries. It’s fine to ask President Liu, Liu Lianxin, to do it too. Liver transplants are performed by both of them. Director Hu: If you...if you want to get a liver transplant, just go to either of them, okay? Stop asking about those other things. I cannot...I cannot tell you so many things.
(Recording 155. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 155)
Investigation Recording 2019-156
Date: November 22, 2019 (+ 86-55162284792)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, South Division, Anhui Provincial Hospital
Summary: We now have two inpatient service sections. We do liver transplants here at the second organ transplant inpatient service section. President Liu is in Hepatobiliary Surgery, but also conducts transplants. At our hospital, both are now at the professor level, and both can do it.
(Recording 156. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 156)
Investigation Recording 2019-157
Date: November 25, 2019 (+ 86-10-56118899)
Subject(s): Nurse, the Hepatobiliary Surgery Inpatient Service, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital
Summary: Dong Jiahong comes to the outpatient clinic on Tuesday mornings and Thursday afternoons. In addition to Dong Jiahong, there are other doctors who do liver transplants in the team.
(Recording 157. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 157)
Investigation Recording 2019-159
Date: November 26, 2019 (+86-45186605335)
Subject(s): Nurse, Urology Inpatient Service, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University
Summary: It is Director Zhu Guoqing who has been doing the surgeries. He is the lead surgeon. Doctor Zhao Yakun takes care of the waiting list. He does not come to the outpatient clinic.
(Recording 159. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 159)
Investigation Recording 2019-160
Date: November 27, 2019 (+ 86-9918563278)
Subject(s): Nurse, the Hepatobiliary Surgery Inpatient Service, the People's Hospital, Xinjiang Autonomous Region
Summary: Liver transplants are done by our director. At 9:30 am, please come to our center, come to the Hepatobiliary Surgery on the third floor of the general building, and consult with a doctor. The day after tomorrow, please come see our director Chen Xiong. The director will arrange it for you after you come.
(Recording 160. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 160)
Investigation Recording 2019-161
Date: November 28, 2019 (+86-57187236871)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Summary: Doctor Xie Wenqing oversees the transplantation area here: Registration, tissue typing, tests, and documentation—all these are under his duties. Several hundred kidney transplants are performed a year. And liver transplants are done as well. For the exact numbers and wait times, you need to ask Doctor Xie! Zheng Shusen has retired. However, he still cares for my patients here and does operations for them.
(Recording 161. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 161)
Investigation Recording 2019-162
Date: November 28, 2019 (+86-21-63586828)
Subject(s): Nurse, Expert Appointment Hotline, the Affiliated Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai Second Military Medical University
Summary: Zhu Youhua is no longer with our hospital. He left a long time ago. Now in Kidney Transplant, we have Wang Liming and Wang Yawei, both available at the clinic on Thursdays. Wang Liming is a full professor while Han Shu is an associate professor. Han Shu is available on Monday afternoon. They both are lead surgeons for kidney transplants.
(Recording 162. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 162)
Investigation Recording 2019-163
Date: November 28, 2019 (+86-991-4362820)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Nurses’ Station, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xinjiang Medical University
Summary: We have a dedicated team of doctors in charge of this area over here. President Wen Hao leads the team. Then mainly it’s our director in charge.
Investigator: Does Wen Hao do the surgeries every day?
Nurse: Yes.
(Recording 163. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 163)
Investigation Recording 2019-164
Date: November 28, 2019 (+86-9914364529)
Subject(s): Doctor Wang, Liver Transplant, First Affiliated Hospital, Xinjiang Medical University
Summary: Now Director Wen Hao has gone for an operation. Doctor Wang, who is in charge of the registration, also has gone for an operation. Because some things can be resolved over the phone…you see? These things must be communicated face-to-face.
(Recording 164. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 164)
Investigation Recording 2019-165
Date: November 30, 2019 (+86-2152887170)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University
Summary: Wang Zhengxin is our director. He does liver transplants. Qian Jianmin doesn’t do liver transplants. Now there are different bunch of doctors!
(Recording 165. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 165)
Investigation Recording 2019-166
Date: December 1, 2019 (+86-2131162866)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Changhai Hospital Affiliated to the Second Military Medical University
Summary: It’s okay to make an appointment with Director Zeng Li or Professor Zhang Lei in Organ Transplant. Either one would work. You can also make an appointment with Professor Zhu Youhua. Professor Zhu is available for appointments on Monday afternoons and Tuesday mornings.
(Recording 166. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 166)
Investigation Recording 2019-169
Date: December 5, 2019 (+86-43181875162)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Hospital, Jilin University
Summary: Over here, usually there is no vacancy (of beds). You need to go to Dr. Zhao, Zhao Guangjie, if you want to wait for a liver source. It is our President Lu Guoyue who does all the surgeries. For the specifics, it’s hard for me to tell. You’ll need to ask the doctor when the time comes.
(Recording 169. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 169)
Investigation Recording 2019-170
Date: December 9, 2019 (+86-535-6691999)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Shandong Province
Summary: Director Wan Fengchun Wan is responsible for preoperative preparations for kidney transplantation,
such as tissue typing and making contacts for organs. President Gao Zhenli is also a lead surgeon.
(Recording 170. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 170)
Investigation Recording 2019-171
Date: December 9, 2019 (+86-53151666221)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant, Jinan Military General Hospital
Summary: For a liver transplant, it’s fine to just go to our Director Chen Zhong. We also have a deputy director, Zhang Jianping.
Some specific questions are difficult to answer. Director Chen Zhong will come to the inpatient service tomorrow morning, you can call in to ask him then.
(Recording 171. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 171)
Investigation Recording 2019-172
Date: December 10, 2019 (+86-13777816727)
Subject(s): Nurse, Referral Cooperation Office, Shulan (Hangzhou) Hospital
Summary: Zheng Shusen is the lead surgeon. In addition to liver, we also do lung, kidney, and other organ transplants. We have a transplantation center.
(Recording 172. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 172)
Investigation Recording 2019-174
Date: December 10, 2019 (+86-5352933591)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, the PLA’s No. 107 Hospital, Yantai, Shandong Province
Summary: Du Yingdong is the lead surgeon. Director Wang Ying can also do the surgery. The majority of surgeries are usually performed by Director Du Yingdong. Director Du Yingdong will be at the outpatient clinic Wednesday morning tomorrow.
(Recording 174. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 174)
Investigation Recording 2019-175
Date: December 11, 2019（+86-2428851211）
Subject(s): Nurse, Urology Inpatient Service, Shenyang Military Region General Hospital
Summary: We have been doing kidney transplants all along. To get a kidney transplant done...yes, we can! Please come to the outpatient clinic at that time. Will you come to the clinic or the lab for the tissue typing? If you come to the tissue typing lab, you can come look for Jiang Ping, Technician Jiang, at the lab on the 9th floor of Building #6 on any weekday, (investigator: Oh) Monday through Friday.
(Recording 175. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 175)
Investigation Recording 2019-176
Date: December 11, 2019 (+86-5368675806)
Subject(s): Doctor Zhu, Kidney Transplant, Weifang People’s Hospital, Shandong Province
Summary: Director of Organ Transplant is Gao Yuan. He is a chief surgeon. In any case, each year we can do a lot! Please be rest assured.
(Recording 176. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 176)
Investigation Recording 2019-177
Date: December 13, 2019 (+86-472-5992751)
Subject(s): Doctor, Urology Inpatient Service, Baogang Hospital, Inner Mongolia
Summary: Han Yizhong, you put down his phone number: 15947122867. He is in charge of this matter. This year 50 cases have been done.
(Recording 177. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 177)
Investigation Recording 2019-178
Date: December 13, 2019 (+86-15012755716)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital
Summary: We have a dedicated inpatient service building called Liver Transplantation Building, Building F, and the inpatient service unit is on the 17th floor of Building F. The surgeries are all done by the director or the president. It is usually Director Jiang Nan as the lead surgeon. For specific questions about liver transplantation, call to consult Doctor Zeng.
(Recording 178. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 178)
Investigation Recording 2019-179
Date: December 13, 2019 (+86-15012755716)
Subject(s): Doctor Zeng, Liver Transplant, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital
Summary: We have 10 doctors in total, grouped into two teams. Mainly Director Jiang does the operations, along with Director Zhao. Mainly it’s the three of us doing the operations. We are a new center. Originally the team came from the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. The whole team of over a dozen people came over together. It has been over three years since they came.
(Recording 179. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 179)
Investigation Recording 2019-180
Date: December 14, 2019 (+86-75523360646)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant, Shenzhen Hospital, Southern Medical University
Summary: Director Zheng is the chief surgeon for kidney transplantation. Zheng came from Beijing and has been here for over a year. He previously did it for many years. The hospital has started kidney transplantation since Director Zheng came. Director Quan Weihe is still doing it.
(Recording 180. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 180)
Investigation Recording 2019-181
Date: December 14, 2019 (+86-75561222333)
Subject(s): Nurse Cui, Inpatient Service Unit, Urology and Kidney Transplant, Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital
Summary:
Investigator: Based on your experience, how long is the wait time? Can it be done in half a month?
Nurse: There were such patients here. There were such patients, yes, yes, yes.
Director Hu: Hongxing has been doing liver and kidney transplants, all together for over twenty years. It is a team, but he is the chief surgeon. No matter when a kidney operation is to be done, no matter when it’s to be done, he does it as always.
Investigator: Can we get treated preferentially if we pay more money?
Nurse: The kidney donors are allocated, but I am not very sure about the procedure. You can ask the doctor to find out more about that.
Investigator: How much would it cost?
Nurse: As for the cost, it seems like 300,000 to 400,000 yuan, as I saw the final bill for one of our patients last time. But I am only including the cost for our Inpatient Service, or possibly the fees incurred during hospitalization. I don’t know about other fees. Under normal situations, the cost could be 300,000 to 400,000 yuan. It can be done within 400,000 yuan.
(Recording 181. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 181)
Investigation Recording 2019-182
Date: December 16, 2019 （+86-10-84206193）
Subject(s): Nurse, ICU Inpatient Service, Kidney Transplant, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing
Summary: We do a lot of kidney transplants. You go to the clinic to make an appointment with Director Liu Naibo.
(Recording 182. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 182)
Investigation Recording 2019-184
Date: December 17, 2019 (+86-2062787180)
Subject(s): Nurse Liu, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University
Summary: Our transplant program has four professors. On Tuesdays, we have Lin Jianhua, Professor Lin. On Wednesdays, we have Yang Dinghua, Professor Yang. On Fridays, we have Li Jiang, Professor Li. Then our Director Zhou Jie only comes to the overseas Chinese clinic. He does not come to the regular clinic. He only comes to the overseas Chinese clinic, or Huiqiao Clinic.
(Recording 184. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 184)
Investigation Recording 2019-185
Date: December 18, 2019 (+86-2082179000)
Subject(s): Nurse Luo, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Summary: A few professors are surgeons in our liver transplant center. There are two professors surnamed Zhang, one is Professor Zhang Peng, and the other is Professor Zhang Yingzai. There are also an associate professor, and a director, who is Yi Shuhong, Director Yi.
(Recording 185. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 185)
Investigation Recording 2019-188
Date: December 24, 2019 (+86-8916371217)
Subject(s): Doctor Wang, Urinary Surgery, Tibet Autonomous Region People’s Hospital
Summary: we have such qualifications Doctor Wang: Our Director Wang majored in kidney transplantation when he was a graduate student. Now he’s our director here.
(Recording 188. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 188)
Investigation Recording 2019-189
Date: December 24, 2019 (+86-2985323955)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'An Jiaotong University
Summary: Except for Wednesday morning, the clinic is open on Mondays through Fridays! Bring your money and come to the outpatient clinic to make an appointment with one of the doctors from Kidney Transplant. It's okay to just bring 15,000 for the first visit...bring the money first! You can make the payment at the outpatient clinic first. Why are you being busy with those things ahead of time? You can bring 15,000 or 20,000 yuan first, and then let the doctor assess the patient’s condition to see whether it can be done. The transplant surgery is a later matter.
(Recording 189. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 189)
Investigation Recording 2019-190
Date: December 24, 2019 (+86-2985323900)
Subject(s): Nurse, Inpatient Service, Liver Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Summary: It seems that we did over a hundred cases last year. The chief surgeon for liver transplants is Lyu Yi, Professor Lyu. They are in the same team and the outpatient clinic is open from Monday to Thursday.
(Recording 190. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 190)
Investigation Recording 2019-191
Date: December 25, 2019 (+86-2785351621)
Subject(s): Doctor, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Summary: We have been doing liver transplants now, and all along. Please make an appointment with Professor Xiong at the clinic. Professor Xiaong is in charge of liver transplants. Professor Xiong Jun, Director Hu Qinggang, Professor Wan, and Professor Chen are all in the same team doing liver transplants.
(Recording 191. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 191)
Investigation Recording 2019-192
Date: December 25, 2019 (+86-2783665283)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Summary: Professor Wei Lai is the medical director, responsible for liver transplants here. He’s the director. Wei Lia and Chen Zhong are both okay. You...you need to make an appointment with a specialist. Professor Wang Shaofa is in our transplant (center). You can also make an appointment with him.
(Recording 192. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 192)
Investigation Recording 2019-194
Date: December 23, 2019（+86-25-83106666）
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital
Summary: President Sun is the chief surgeon for nearly all transplant surgeries here. He will be at the outpatient clinic on Monday.
(Recording 194. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 194)
Investigation Recording 2019-195
Date: December 26, 2019 （+86-29-84771095）
Subjects: Nurse, Kidney Transplant, Xijing Hospital Affiliated to the Air Force Medical University (aka the Fourth Military Medical University)
Summary: You can make the appointment with Professor Zhang Gang every Monday and Wednesday morning and with Doctor Li Zhibin Friday afternoon. They both oversee transplants. Director Yuan works in our hospital.
(Recording 195. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 195)
Investigation Recording 2019-196
Date: December 26, 2019 (+ 86-15929931212)
Subjects: Li Guowei, Kidney Transplant Surgeon, Xijing Hospital Affiliated to the Air Force Medical University (aka the Fourth Military Medical University)
Summary: In Xijing Hospital, there’s one director whose family name is Qin, and the other one with a family name of Yuan. The two directors perform the kidney transplant surgeries.
(Recording 196. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 196)
Investigation Recording 2019-197
Date: December 27, 2019（+86-0-25-68303180）
Subject(s): A Nurse and a doctor, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University
Summary: You can look for Director Tan Ruoyun or Director Han Zhijian. I don’t have a say on this and only the director does, right?
(Recording 197. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 197)
Investigation Recording 2019-198
Date: December 28, 2019 (+86-051267972184)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Soochow University
Summary: Director Wang Liangliang is in charge of all kidney transplants and he will be operating. Hou Jianquang works at inpatient service. You can make an appointment with Wang Liangliang and Hou Jianquan at the clinic.
(Recording 198. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 198)
Investigation Recording 2019-199
Date: December 31, 2019 (+86-2083827812)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital
Summary: Both Director Yang Huanqing and Director Yu Yuming can do kidney transplants as a lead surgeon.
(Recording 199. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 199)
Investigation Recording 2019-200
Date: December 31, 2019 (+86-9718068853)
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Qinghai Provincial People's Hospital
Summary: You just need to come, and there’s only one director whose last name is Guo. If you are here for a liver transplant, you will be given the priority to get it arranged for you. In terms of transplant volume, we do less than the hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
(Recording 200. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 200)
9. Has the Military and Armed Police hospital stopped doing transplants?
October 24, 2019, a nurse at the Kidney Transplant Inpatience Service, Shaanxi Armed Police General Hospital: Now the state stipulates that military hospitals are not allowed to do transplants, and it was stopped last year. On the same day, a nurse from the liver transplant inpatient service at Xijing Hospital affiliated to the Fourth Military Medical University: We do not do liver transplants now! Currently only serving soldiers.
The transplant business at the CCP Military and Armed Police Hospitals had been carrying out until the end of 2019, and many hospitals still accept patients in their outpatient clinics for liver and kidney transplants.
There is another noteworthy phenomenon: People’s Liberation Army Hospital No.303 Guangxi was transformed from a military to a civilian’s hospital. But right after that, a new transplant business was established at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University and about 300 to 400 kidney transplants have been performed there since last year. “my entire team originally came from People's Liberation Army Hospital No. 303. Every doctor can perform surgery. We were back in business last year, and the outpatient clinic is not running yet. Our director---his name (Sun Xuyong) is known by many hospitals across the country, as long as there is a transplant business."
Till October 10th, Dr. Li from the Organ Transplant at the hospital No.303 was still soliciting business: “We can do liver and kidney transplants. We have more than one hundred beds. We perform three to four hundred kidney transplants every year. Kidney sources are relatively abundant.”
In response to the suspension of transplants in Military and Armed Police Hospitals, we selected 13 cases from 200 telephone investigation calls. The translations of recordings are as follows:
Investigation Recording 2019-202
Date: October 24, 2019
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant, Armed Police General Hospital
Summary: The state stipulates that military hospitals are not allowed to offer transplant operations, and it has been prohibited since last year. On the day of the phone call, the subject of the investigation, a nurse in the liver transplant inpatient service of Xijing Hospital Affiliated to the Air Force Medical University said: We do not perform liver transplant now! We currently only serve soldiers.
(Recording 202. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 202)
Investigation Recording 2019-101
Date: September 20, 2019 (+86-2750660089)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, the PLA No. 161 Hospital
Summary: This hospital is for kidney transplants. These things are managed by the leaders. Those who do these things all directly contact the leaders. We have seen a lot. However, these things are all dealt by the leaders in the center, not by us.
(Recording 101. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 101)
Investigation Recording 2019-122
Date: October 10, 2019 (+86-7713393712)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University
Summary: We do 300 or 400 cases a year. We have a total of 35 beds, which are all taken already. If no beds are available, extra beds must be put up in the hallways.
Investigator: Are you the Second, or the First Affiliated Hospital?
Nurse: We’re the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University. Our doctors in this team are all originally from the No. 303 Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. All our doctors can perform the surgeries. Sun Xuyong actually is our director’s name, well known among many hospitals nationwide.
(Recording 122. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 122)
Investigation Recording 2019-123
Date: October 9, 2019 (+86-7712870303)
Subject(s) of Investigation: Doctor Li, Organ Transplant Inpatient Service, the People’s Liberation Army Number 303 Hospital, Guangxi
Summary: We have over a hundred beds. We do three to four hundred operations per year. The kidney supply is quite abundant!
(Recording 123. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 123)
Investigation Recording 2019-158
Date: November 25, 2019（+86-13801192279）
Subject(s): Shi Bingyi, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army No. 309 Hospital
Summary: Our military hospital is undergoing a reorganization. We no longer can do the surgeries now. For the time being, I cannot tell when the reorganization will be completed. If you’re in Beijing, either YouAn or Chao-Yang Hospital is fine. You’re calling from overseas, and it is inconvenient for me to talk too much over the phone. I cannot say anything about organ transplants in an international call.
(Recording 158. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 158)
Investigation Recording 2019-162
Date: November 28, 2019 (+86-21-63586828)
Subject(s): Nurse, Expert Appointment Hotline, the Affiliated Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai Second Military Medical University
Summary: We do kidney transplants now. Now in Kidney Transplant, we have Wang Liming and Wang Yawei, both available at the clinic on Thursdays. There is a short supply of bed.
(Recording 162. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 162)
Investigation Recording 2019-166
Date: December 1, 2019 (+86-2131162866)
Subject(s): Nurse, Kidney Transplant Inpatient Service, Changhai Hospital Affiliated to the Second Military Medical University
Summary: It’s okay to make an appointment with Director Zeng Li or Professor Zhang Lei in Organ Transplant. Either one would work. You can also make an appointment with Professor Zhu Youhua. Professor Zhu is available for appointments on Monday afternoons and Tuesday mornings.
(Recording 166. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 166)
Investigation Recording 2019-167
Date: December 3, 2019 (+ 86-21-31162866)
Subject(s): Doctor, Liver Transplant, Changhai Hospital Affiliated to the Second Military Medical University
Summary: Professor Li Qigen works at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University. I suggest you go there if you are in a hurry, because it will be quicker over there. If you want to register at more hospitals, those in Shanghai, such as Renji Hospital, Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, our hospital and Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, or those in Beijing and in Tianjin, the First Affiliated Hospital at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, or Shulan Hospital--those are all very famous ones in the country. At this time, I mean that the whole healthcare system is currently undergoing reform, and the government policies are now stricter, so now the situation is... Every hospital is the same, in the past, frankly, the organ sources may be a little bit non-compliant or something like that.
Investigator: My friend, he waited less than two weeks at that time, and got it done in less than two weeks.
Doctor: Yes, it was quicker previously, it was quicker before, indeed.
(Recording 167. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 167)
Investigation Recording 2019-173
Date: December 10, 2019 (+86-53251870835)
Subject(s): Doctor Jiao Xueli, Liver Transplantation Inpatient Service, the People's Liberation Army No. 401 Hospital (Qingdao)
Summary: The doctors in Liver Transplantation can all do liver transplants. If you want to go to see the director, you can make an appointment with him at the outpatient clinic on Tuesday morning. If a patient wants to have a surgery done as soon as possible, he/she has to ask Director Yuan Weisheng about it. A liver transplant surgery can be done in a month.
(Recording 173. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 173)
Investigation Recording 2019-174
Date: December 10, 2019 (+86-5352933591)
Subject(s): Nurse, Liver Transplant Inpatient Service, the PLA’s No. 107 Hospital, Yantai, Shandong Province
Summary: Most surgeries are usually performed by Director Du. Tomorrow is Wednesday. He sees the outpatients tomorrow, tomorrow morning. Director Wang Ying can do surgeries, too.
(Recording 174. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 174)
Investigation Recording 2019-175
Date: December 11, 2019（+86-2428851211）
Subject(s): Nurse, Urology Inpatient Service, Shenyang Military Region General Hospital
Summery: We have been doing kidney transplants all along. From Monday to Friday, if you come to the tissue typing lab, you can come look for Jiang Ping, Technician Jiang, at the lab on the 9th floor of Building #6 on any weekday, (investigator: Oh) Monday through Friday. Director Yang Hongwei is still working here.
Investigator: Have you done it recently? This week or over the last two weeks?
Nurse Wang: Yes, we have!
(Recording 175. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 175)
Investigation Recording 2019-196
Date: December 26, 2019 (+ 86-15929931212)
Subjects: Li Guowei, Kidney Transplant Surgeon, Xijing Hospital Affiliated to the Air Force Medical University (aka the Fourth Military Medical University)
Summary: The surgery could only be performed at Xijing Hospital, and the surgeons there are all directors. Xijing Hospital does more than 300 cases of kidney transplantation per year.
(Recording 196. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 196)
