WOIPFG’s Investigative Report on the Alleged Organ Harvesting of Living Falun Gong Practitioners at Zhengzhou People’s Hospital and Its Staff Members Suspected of Participation

Jun22,2023

Address: Intersection of Huanghe Road and Wenhua Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province

Preface

WOIPFG’s investigation into the Organ Transplant Center of Zhengzhou People’s Hospital confirmed once again that since 2000, the CCP has been harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners for huge profits. The organizations involved in the cases are located in all provinces, municipalities directly under the central government, and autonomous regions in mainland China, involving all organ transplant institutions of the military, armed police, and local hospitals (medical centers). In addition, a considerable number of small and medium-sized hospitals and specialized hospitals that do not have the conditions for transplant operations are also suspected of being involved[1].

On November 6, 2018, Qu Qingshan, director of the Organ Transplantation Center of Zhengzhou People's Hospital, did not deny that they were using Falun Gong practitioners' organs in a telephone survey conducted by WOIPFG investigators. On the same day, Miao Shuzhai, the chief surgeon of the Organ Transplantation Center of Zhengzhou People’s Hospital, bluntly admitted that their liver transplant donors were from Falun Gong practitioners during a telephone survey conducted by WOIPFG investigators, and the waiting time for the donor availability was only one or two weeks, one month at its longest.

From the above survey recordings, it can be determined that, following the CCP’s persecution to Falun Gong, the Organ Transplantation Center of Zhengzhou People’s Hospital did participat in the crime of harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners, it's even more outrageous that this crime still continues to go on to this day.

I. Overview of the hospital

Located in the city heart area, Zhengzhou People's Hospital was founded in 1912[2], presently belonging to the Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, formerly the First Military Medical University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) [3], is a designated hospital for the foreign medical service of the city, a postdoctoral research base, and a Grade III Level A hospital of the country. In April 2010, Henan Academician Expert Workstation of Zhengzhou People's Hospital was established with tumor center, heart center and liver center. Zhengzhou People's Hospital has also established a "Liver Surgery Diagnosis and Treatment Center" [4] in cooperation with the Shanghai Changzheng Hospital belongs to the Second Military Medical University of PLA. According to WOIPFG's telephone survey of Bai Shuzhong, Minister of General Logistics and Health of the People's Liberation Army, when Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the Communist Party of China, issued a killing order against Falun Gong practitioners, various hospitals affiliated to the Chinese military have become the main body for organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners, including Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, with which Zhengzhou People's Hospital was cooperated.

II. Overview of the Transplant Center

Zhengzhou People's Hospital is the only hospital in Henan Province that has been approved by the Ministry of Health of the Communist Party of China to own five transplant qualifications for heart, liver, kidney, small intestine, and pancreas[5].

1. The hospital claimed that the case number of kidney transplant operations ranked the second in China for three consecutive years.

The Kidney Transplant Department of the hospital was established in June 2002. It comes with three separate wards: a kidney disease ward, an organ transplantation ward and a blood purification ward. It became a Characteristic Specialized Department of Henan Province, Provincial Supported Crucial Area of Henan and a Key Laboratory of Kidney Transplantation of Zhengzhou City. It claims to have ranked 2nd on kidney transplantation in China from 2006 to 2008[6].

2. A large number of transplants per day and the busy of doctors shows that the real number of transplants in the hospital was huge.

On Dec. 27, 2007, a team led by Qu Qingshan, the director of the Nephrology and Organ Transplantation Center, completed 13 kidney transplant surgeries within 21 hours[7]. According to an article on "Chinese Etiquette Training Network" issued April, 2010", around the Chinese New Year, Doctor Xing Li of Kidney Transplant Center had been working very hard for consecutive days. He had to do the operation from 2 or 3 AM until next morning. His right eye suffered from conjunctivitis as a result. Since he had to do operations every night, he had to ask his assistants to help cleaning. [8]”

“On Dec. 27, 2007, the Kidney Transplant Center set a record for the number of surgical operations in a single day. The team led by Director Qu Qingshan completed 13 kidney transplant operations by a continuous fight of 21 hours.”

Figure 1 Snapshot of Chinese Etiquette Training Network

3. Liver Surgery Department was capable of performing more than 20 emergency liver transplants every year.

According to public data on the official website of Zhengzhou People's Hospital in 2011, the Liver Surgery Department of the hospital completes nearly 100 liver transplants and more than 20 emergency liver transplants with acute liver failure every year[9]. At the same time, the hospital also carried out the first small bowel transplant in Henan Province, and was actively researching abdominal organ cluster transplantation.

4. Based on the large bed volume, there is a large number of liver and kidney transplantation each year.

According to the online public data in 2011, the Hepatobiliary Surgery Department of the hospital is an advantageous discipline and a key department in Henan Province, with a total of 52 beds[10]. The Nephropathy Organ Transplant Department has 90 beds open[11].

5. A strong team of liver and kidney transplant surgeons who conducted large number of transplants

There are 16 doctors and 60 nurses[12] in the Kidney Organ Transplant Department. There are more than 40 medical and nursing staff in the department of Liver Surgery, including 5 with senior professional titles and 18 with doctor's and master's degrees[13]. Multiple liver and kidney transplantation teams can be formed.

Chen Guoyong: According to the screenshot of the website in 2015, as the vice president and director of the Liver transplantation surgery department of Zhengzhou People's Hospital, he has completed more than 500 cases of combined resection of large organs, more than 500 cases of kidney transplantation[14], more than 300 cases of liver transplantation, and dozens of cases of liver kidney and pancreas kidney transplantation[15]. Chen was visiting scholar in Japan and South Korea, a trainee in Tianjin First Central Hospital and Shanghai Changzheng Hospital for multi-organ combined transplantation and living liver transplantation; He was employed as the deputy director of the Organ Transplantation Center of PLA 309 Hospital[16].

Qu Qingshan: Director of the Nephrotic Organ Transplantation Center. According to the public information in 2013, Qu Qingshan himself performed more than 1,000 allograft kidney transplants, more than 150 living kidney transplants, and the first liver-kidney combined transplant in Henan Province[17].

6. The new organ transplant building to be open soon

Zhengzhou People's Hospital organ transplant center has a special transplant building for transplant patients[18]. In December 2022, according to multiple news sources, the new organ transplant building of Zhengzhou People's Hospital is to be open soon[19].

III. Telephone investigation showed an abundant donor source can make the waiting time for a donor as short as 2 to 3 days and with a lot choice, including organs from Falun Gong practitioners; the hospital has a large number of transplants, a high turnover rate of beds and additional beds.

1. Organ donors can be young and good

1 Survey object: Chen Yongfeng, Doctor of Zhengzhou People's Hospital

Investigation time: June 26, 2015

Summary of survey results:

The liver transplantation of our hospital is the best in Henan. We even performed a few liver transplants today, two liver transplants; “The donor is from our local. The quality can be guaranteed; if you want to do it and have plenty of time, we can choose a good, younger liver. We have plenty of donors, so you can also choose the young and good ones, but I cannot promise you that in the future.” (Recording 1. Download: MP3, Manuscript download: pdf 45) [20].

2. Short waiting time

Subject of investigation: Doctor on Duty of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhengzhou People's Hospital

Investigation time: June 25, 2015 (8637163933151)

Summary of the survey results: The doctor on duty for hepatobiliary surgery said: “Waiting for donors generally takes 3-2 days, and nearly 10 days for the unluckier. The cost is about 500,000 RMB Yuan. We have a lot of donors.” When asked about the reason for a fast matching time, and the origin of donors, the doctor replied: "This thing... um... No comment, no comment, don't ask, don't ask these things. You can come any day, go directly to our ward, usually one or two (operations) can be assured. "(Recording 2. Download: MP3, Manuscript download: pdf 48) [21].

Subject of investigation: Chen Jianbin, a liver transplant surgeon at Zhengzhou People’s Hospital.

Investigation time: September 25, 2015.

Summary of survey results: When responded a telephone survey from WOIPFG, the answer definitely confirmed that the waiting time for liver transplantation can be as quick as 2-3 days, and liver transplantation can be done in ten day to a half month at most.

(Download this recording 3: MP3 Manuscript details: Appendix 11) [22]

Subject of investigation: Doctor of Liver Transplantation Department of Zhengzhou People's Hospital[23]
Investigation time: February 26, 2019

Summary of the survey results: The telephone survey made it clear that (liver transplantation) should be available to within one month.
(Recording 4 download: MP3, manuscript download: pdf 008)

Subject of investigation: Nurse in the Kidney Transplantation Department of Zhengzhou People

Investigation time: April 17, 2019[24]

Summary of investigation results: In response to an inquiry from WOIPFG investigators, she replied that more than 200 cases can be formed a year, some are done within just a few days of waiting, and there are someone waited for three to four months, or five to six months.
(Recording 5 download: MP3, manuscript download: pdf 043)

3. The doctors of the hospital admitted to using Falun Gong practitioners’ organs and are still using them

Subject of investigation: Miao Shuzhai, Chief Surgeon of the Organ Transplantation Center of Zhengzhou People's Hospital[25]

Investigation time: November 06, 2018 (13938277351)

Summary of survey results:

Miao Shuzhai: "(Arranging a liver transplantation) generally takes one or two weeks, or to one month";

Investigator: About the donors you are currently using, you are using that kind of healthy donors, or the donors from Falun Gong, aren't you?

Miao Shuzhai: Right, right, correct!

(Recording 6. Play and download MP3, please see 6.pdf for the complete recording record)

(The live video (4) of the WOIPFG investigating on CCP’s live organ harvesting) [26]

Subject of investigation: Qu Qingshan, director of the Organ Transplantation Center of Zhengzhou People’s Hospital, did not deny that the organs of Falun Gong practitioners wrer still in use

Investigation time: November 06, 2018 (13703717386)

Summary of survey results:

Investigator: Another question is about your donor. The donor you are using now is till from Falun Gong (practitioners), the healthy donors, aren't you?

Qu Qingshan: Ah, all of them, all of them are healthy.
(Recording 7. Play and download MP3, please see pdf 17for the complete recording)

4. The hospital has a large number of transplants, a high turnover rate of beds and additional beds

Subject of investigation: Wang Bing, iver surgeon, Zhengzhou People's Hospital
Investigation time: June 28, 2015, (+86-15038199893)

Summary of survey results:

In a telephone survey conducted by WOIPFG investigators, he responded:

You will get a liver donor in the second day; When we did well in the past, the number of transplants ranked second in the country; In the resent few years, the number of transplants was still ranked in the top 5 in the country. 2 cases this week and 3 last week; everybody knows that we have done a good job, and the donor jobs have never let up. We have network across the whole country, very solid relations; our hospital does a lot every year. To be honest, our hospital does not rank well in the country, but our organ transplantation is marvelous done! Very competitive.

(Download this recording 8: MP3 Manuscript details: Appendix 7) [27]

Subject of investigation: Department of Organ Transplantation, Zhengzhou People's Hospital, Henan

Investigation time: October 18, 2017 (+86 + 37167077512)

Summary of survey results:

During the investigation, it was stated that there are 60 beds and 67 patients have been accommodated, all of whom are transplant patients. If there is a donor, several cases can be done a day. (Investigation time: 2017-10-18)...... [28]

(Recording 9 playback and download MP3, please see the pdf 159 for the complete recording record)

Subject of investigation: Medical Office of Transplantation Department, Zhengzhou People's Hospital

Investigation time: October 23, 2017 (+86+37167077339)

Summary of investigation results: Kidney transplant doctor Li told WOIPFG investigators: It is generally more than 200 or 300 (cases) in a year. The cost for donor is now basically 150,000 to 160,000 RMB Yuan. ……[29]

(Recording 10 playback and download MP3; complete recording record please see pdf10)

Subject of investigation: Nurses of the Transplantation Department, Zhengzhou People's Hospital

Investigation time: January 11, 2018 (+8637167077512)

Summary of the survey results (From the nurses):

When she was interviewed by the tracing international telephone survey, she answered: There were less than 200 kidney (transplantation) cases in 2017, which is not as much as before. The liver and kidney (transplantations) are combined in one ward, with more than 70 beds, including 100 extra beds;

The investigator asked: Do you have a full schedule of work every month?

The answered: yes: Yes, yes! (Investigation time: 2018-01-11)…… [30]

(Recording 11 playback and download MP3, please see the pdf11 for the complete recording record)

Subject of investigation: Nurse of Organ Transplantation Department, Zhengzhou People's Hospital

Investigation time: April 10, 2018 (+8637167077512)

Summary of the survey results:

Nurse: There were more than 200 kidney transplants and 60 to 70 liver transplants last year. We have fewer liver transplant wards than kidney transplant wards. So, the bed vacancies are tight. We have more than 70 beds here at the general transplantation. (Investigation time: 2018-04-10)…… [31]

(Recording 12 playback and download MP3, please see the pdf12 for the complete recording record)

Subject of the investigation: Clinical transplant doctor of Zhengzhou People's Hospital

Investigation time: January 11, 2018

Summary of the survey results of WOIPFG investigation to the doctor:

Doctor: 167 cases of kidney and 35 cases of liver were done in last year were done, and add up to more than 200 cases altogether. We carried out the most in the year before last year, with more than 200 cases done. We have more than 200 beds, you can’t say it is a small number, right? but we still had to arrange (additional patients) in the corridor. With 50 beds available, but 70 to 80 patients were admitted. The Brain Death Center is jointly managed by the Henan Provincial Red Cross Society and the Henan Provincial Department of Health; (As to the question about) the number of donors, this is mainly (handled) in the hospital, and each hospital has the operation of itself. (Investigation time: 2018-01-11)…… [32]

(Recording 13 playback and download MP3 , please see the pdf 13 for the complete recording record)

Subject of investigation: Clinic Nurse in the Kidney Transplant Department of Zhengzhou People's Hospital[33]

Investigation time: March 4, 2019

Summary of survey results of the WOIPFG investigation:

Nurse: Recently, more kidney transplants have been done. The turnover rate of patients is relatively fast, and there is no room for the time being. You might be accommodated with an extra bed.

We do about 200 cases a year.

(Recording 14 download: MP3, manuscript download: pdf 011)

IV. List of responsible persons:

ZZRM001 Qu Qingshan

Sex: male

Personal profile:

Director of the department, chief surgeon. Vice Chairman of Henan Provincial Blood Purification Management Professional Committee, Deputy Chairman of Henan Provincial Organ Transplant Professional Committee.

Graduated from Henan Medical University. Has been engaged in urology kidney transplantation and liver transplantation. Carried out the first living donor kidney transplantation and combined liver-kidney transplantation in Henan province.

Carried out more than 1,000 cases of allogeneic kidney transplantation and 150 cases of living donor kidney transplantation. More than 10 liver transplants have been successfully carried out in the past three years[34].

ZZRM002 Chen Guoyong

Sex: male

Date of birth: September 9, 1971[35].

Personal Profile: Deputy Dean and Chief Surgeon of Zhengzhou People's Hospital, Director of Liver Transplantation, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Master degree.

Corresponding member of the editorial board of "Organ Transplantation" magazine; deputy chairman of the Henan Provincial Society of Organ Transplantation; associate professor of Southern Medical University and was once employed as the deputy director of the Organ Transplantation Center of PLA 309 Hospital[36].

In 2010 and 2012, he was a visiting scholar at Kyoto University School of Medicine in Japan and Asan Medical Center in South Korea for academic research on hepatobiliary, pancreatic and splenic diseases, and demonstrating the surgical of living donor liver transplantation[37].

Complete more than 500 cases of combined large organ extraction, more than 500 cases of kidney transplantation, more than 100 cases of liver transplantation, 10 cases for both combined liver-kidney transplantation and combined pancreas-kidney transplantation[38].

ZZRM003 Xing Li

Sex: female

Date of birth: November 12, 1970[39].

Personal Profile: Deputy director of the Organ Transplantation Center, associate chief surgeon

ZZRM004 Miao Shuzhai, Sex: male.

Personal Profile: Deputy Director of Kidney Transplantation Department, Chief Surgeon.

Engages in allogeneic kidney transplantation, living donor kidney transplantation from relatives, combined liver-kidney transplantation, combined pancreas-kidney transplantation, guiding patients to rationally use immunosuppressive agents, and handling various postoperative complications[41].

ZZRM005 Jiang Xin

Sex: male

Personal profile: Attending surgeon of Kidney tTansplantation Department.

ZZRM006 Wang Kai

Sex: male

Personal profile: Attending surgeon of Kidney Transplantation Department.

In recent years, has participated in the completion of more than 500 kidney transplant operations. In the past 5 years, has performed more than 300 kidney transplant operations, and has performed more than 100 combined liver and kidney operations[43].

ZZRM007 Zhang Yanxuan

Sex: male

Date of birth: December 17, 1971[44].

Personal profile: Deputy director of the Kidney Disease Center, attending surgeon. A member of the Organ Transplant Society of the Henan Medical Association; a member of the Transplant Immunization Branch of the Henan Immunological Society.

Has been engaged in clinical and scientific research on organ transplantation, including allogeneic kidney transplantation, living donor kidney transplantation from relatives, combined liver and kidney transplantation, combined pancreas-kidney transplantation, guiding patients to rationally use immunosuppressive agents, and managing various postoperative complications[45].

ZZRM008 Yang Lei[46]

Sex: female

Date of birth: November 1, 1969.

Personal profile: Deputy Chief Surgeon of Kidney Transplantation Department.

ZZRM009 Shen Beili

Sex: female

Personal profile: Deputy Chief Surgeon of Kidney Transplantation Department.

Carry out integrated treatments such as kidney transplantation for patients with uremia, participate in the perioperative management of kidney transplant patients, and treat complications after kidney transplantation[48].

ZZRM010 Wang Zhun

Sex: male

Personal profile: Deputy Dean, Deputy Chief Surgeon.

In 2004, took the lead in carrying out liver transplantation in Zhengzhou region[49].

ZZRM011 Chen Yongfeng

Sex：male

Personal profile: Hepatobiliary surgeon, transferred to the liver transplant ward of Henan Provincial People's Hospital[50].

Completed more than 300 cases of large organ joint extraction and participated in more than 200 cases of liver transplantation[51].

ZZRM012 Jiang Jinfa

Sex: male.

Personal profile: Attending surgeon of Liver Surgery Department.

Engaged in diagnosis and treatment of liver transplantation and other diseases[52].

ZZRM013 Yang Zaizhen

Sex: male

Personal profile: Chief surgeon, director of Heart Center, deputy director of General Surgery Department and director of the Cardiac Surgery Department

Engaged in the research of heart transplantation technology[53].

ZZRM014 Zhang Xianghui

Sex: male

Personal profile: Deputy Chief Surgeon of Cardiovascular Surgery, Division Secretary.

ZZRM015 Wang Yanqing

Sex: female

Date of birth: June 19, 1969.

Personal profile: Deputy Chief Surgeon of Ophthalmology.

Graduated from Henan Medical University. Has been engaged in urology kidney transplantation and liver transplantation. Carried out the diagnosis and treatment of the first living donor kidney transplantation, combined liver-kidney transplantation and corneal transplantation in our province[55].

ZZRM016 Liu Ping

Sex: male

Personal profile: Deputy Director of Ophthalmology, Chief Surgeon, Part-time Professor of Southern Medical University.

Led the development of a series of high-precision operations such as lamellar keratoplasty, full-thickness keratoplasty, excimer laser therapeutic keratectomy (PDK), and amniotic membrane transplantation applied to the treatment of ocular surface diseases, with an annual operation volume of more than 200 example[56].

ZZRM017 Wang Xin

Sex: male

Personal profile: Chief ophthalmologist, master's degree student tutor of Xinxiang Medical College, part-time professor of Southern Medical University.

Engaged in operations such as corneal transplantation[57].

ZZRM018 Wang Kexue

Sex: male

Date of birth: March 20, 1972.

Personal profile: Deputy Chief Surgeon of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Deputy Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Engaged in heart transplantation[58].

ZZRM019 Sun Jianjun

Sex: male

Date of birth: August 31, 1972[59].

Personal profile: Deputy Chief Surgeon of Liver Transplantation Ward, member of Henan Branch of Chinese Society of Transplantation Immunology, Chinese Medical Association.

Presided over or participated in the completion of more than 200 cases of liver transplantation, combined liver-kidney transplantation and combined pancreas-kidney transplantation[60].

ZZRM020 Xie Zhantao

Sex: male

Personal profile: Attending surgeon in liver transplantation, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, liver transplantation ward.

Graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine.

Trainee in living donor liver transplantation technology at Asan Medical Center in South Korea and obtained a certificate of completion.

Participated in more than 400 liver transplant operations and postoperative treatments. Participated in completing 2 small bowel transplants, more than 10 combined liver-kidney transplants, and 4 combined pancreas-kidney transplants[61].

ZZRM021 Wei Sidong

Sex: male

Date of birth: December 2, 1968[62].

Personal profile: Chief surgeon of the liver transplantation ward, member of the Henan Provincial Organ Transplant Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Association

Engaged in clinical and scientific research in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery for more than 20 years.

Received professional training in liver transplantation at Asan Medical Center in South Korea in 2012.

Good at liver transplantation and other operations, participated in more than 200 clinical liver transplants, and participated in the first small bowel transplantation and combined liver and kidney transplantation in Henan Province [63].

ZZRM022 Xu Huaen

Sex: male