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

Sep 15, 2023

Address：No. 169, Donghu Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan

Preface

In April 2006, during a telephone investigation conducted by WOIPFG, a doctor at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University (formerly the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hubei Medical University) admitted that they were using organs from Falun Gong practitioners and allocated kidneys with Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command. In another telephone investigation conducted in 2016, a kidney transplant doctor said the wait time for an organ was about two weeks. In 2017, a liver transplant doctor said: "We often do emergency liver transplants." Given the background of the CCP's state crime of live organ harvesting, the hospital is suspected of participating in the crime of live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other groups.

I. Hospital Overview

Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University is a Grade-A Tertiary Hospital with 3,300 beds, equipped with dual-source CT, 3.0 MRI, ECT, high-energy multi-blade grating medical linear accelerator, DSA, dual board DR, PET-CT, TOMO and other high-end medical equipment[1].

In 2007, the Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases of Wuhan University was formally established in Zhongnan Hospital to conduct research and clinical operations on various organ transplants, including liver transplants, kidney transplants, pancreas transplants, small intestine transplants, combined liver-kidney transplants, combined autologous liver transplants and transplants of liver cells, spleen cells, and islets[2]. The Hepatobiliary Diseases Institute of Wuhan University and Transplantation Medicine Center of Wuhan University were approved by Wuhan University, and their foundation stones were laid by former French President Jacques Chirac in 2006[3]. The organ transplant center is funded by France[4]. On March 17, 2007, Chirac unveiled the Hepatobiliary Disease Research Institute of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University[5].

On August 1, 2013, the hospital obtained the qualifications for kidney and liver transplants approved by the National Health and Family Planning Commission[6]. Before this, from February 2010 to September 2013, the Transplantation Medical Center performed 98 kidney transplants[7]; from 2002 to 2012, the hospital performed at least 407 liver transplants[8]. Its Department of Ophthalmology comprehensively carried out ocular surface surgeries including corneal transplants[9].

II.Admits the use of organs from Falun Gong practitioners and the allocation of kidney sources with Wuhan General Hospital of the Guangzhou Military Command

Investigation Subject: A doctor at The Second Affiliated Hospital of Hubei Medical University (the predecessor of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University)

Investigation Time: April 2006

Contents:

Q: How about the kidney sources from Falun Gong prisoners here?

A: It should be said that it is okay. How about you ask the General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command?

Q: Wait a minute... Guangzhou Military Command?

A: It is the Wuhan General Hospital. We also share (organs) with each other.[10]

(Recording 1 Download MP3.)

III.Transplanted organs from acute brain-dead, cardiac-dead donors

Through the search of some academic papers, we found that from 2002 to 2011, the hospital performed 407 cases of liver transplants. These livers were harvested from acute brain-dead and cardiac-dead donors[11].

Harvesting organs from brain-dead organ donors is widely recognized and legally protected internationally. However, China has never legislated on "brain death", nor does it have a sound organ donation system, so there are no "brain dead donors" at all.

IV. China Human Organ Procurement Organization Alliance (OPO) was established at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University

On November 23, 2014, the China Human Organ Procurement Organization Alliance was established at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University[12]. The executive chairman of the alliance is Ye Qifa, a chief surgeon and Director of the Organ Transplant Center of Zhongnan Hospital. Ye served as the Vice President of the Third Xiangya Hospital in Hunan for many years. He is currently the Director of the Transplant Medicine Engineering Technology Research Center of the Ministry of Health and the Chairman of its Technical Committee. He has personally completed more than 600 liver transplants and more than 1,300 kidney transplants[13].

V.Telephone Investigation

1.Wait time for kidney transplant: about two weeks, generally less than one month.

Investigation Subject: Dr. Chen, Liver and Kidney Transplantation, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University[14]

Investigation Time: April 2, 2016 (+86-2767813441)

Summary: (We) do several cases per week and several sets per month. The wait time may be, I think, one or two weeks for a preliminary result. It may be about two weeks. Generally speaking, the wait time will not be more than a month. There are liver and kidney transplants tonight. Last year we performed about 80 liver transplants and maybe above 200 cases plus kidney transplants.

(Recording 1. Download MP3, manuscript download: pdf 2)

Investigation Subject: Dr. Zhang, Liver Transplantation, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University[15]

Investigation Time: September 12, 2016 (+86-18942924741)

Summary: (We) do more than 100 transplants per year. This year we have done dozens of cases. The wait time for the donor is usually one month.

(Recording 2. Download MP3, please see Addendum 67)

2.Emergency liver transplants are done frequently.

Investigation Subject: A doctor in the liver transplant ward of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University

Investigation Time: October 30, 2017 (+86-2767813423)

Summary: We often do emergency liver transplants.

(Recording 3. Download: MP3; Transcript Download: pdf 40)[16]

3. There is a hepatobiliary hospital specializing in liver transplants.

Investigation Subject: A nurse in the Second Ward of the Hepatobiliary Hospital of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University[17]

Investigation Time: September 18, 2019 (+86-2767812959)

Summary:

For liver transplantation, you must call the Hepatobiliary Research Institute.
We are the same hospital with Hepatobiliary Hospital, which specializes on organ transplants and is a hepatobiliary transplant research center. It is highly specialized, and only they can do it. We are not clear about this.
Only the two directors can do this. One is Ye Qifa.

(Recording 4 download: MP3, manuscript download: pdf098)

VI. Official Report on Short Wait Time for Organs

According to a report by people.com.cn on July 9, 2015, a 26-year-old boy, Chen Jun (pseudonym), came to the Organ Transplant Center of Zhongnan Hospital half a month earlier. Ye Qifa and Ye Shaojun decided to perform liver transplantation for the patient. Soon Chen Jun was matched with an organ donor's liver, and the transplant operation was successfully completed within a week[18].

VII.Main Responsible Persons:

WHDX-ZNYY001 Ye Qifa

Position and Title:

Vice President of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Chief Surgeon, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Vice President of the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Executive Vice President of the Institute of Transplantation Medicine.

Personal Profile:

Director of the Transplant Medicine Engineering Technology Research Center and Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Ministry of Health, Member of the Standing Committee of the Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Surgical Society, Expert of the Liver Transplantation Group of the Chinese Surgical Society, Deputy Director of the Transplantation Branch of the Hunan Medical Association, Director of the Hunan Organ Transplantation Quality Control Center, Deputy Director of Clinical Application Committee of Hunan Organ Transplantation Technology

From 1972 to 1975, he studied in the Medical Department of Tongji Medical College (now Huazhong University of Science and Technology Tongji Medical College). From 1975 to 1989, he worked in Tongji Hospital. After 1996, he was employed as a professor, chief surgeon, doctoral supervisor, and postdoctoral supervisor. In September 2002, he became the Vice President of the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, the Executive Vice President of the Institute of Transplantation Medicine, and the Director of the Transplantation Medicine Engineering Technology Research Center of the Ministry of Health. In December 1989, he went to Heidelberg University in West Germany to study transplant surgery and received a doctorate. He has made outstanding achievements in the field of organ transplantation. As the Vice President of the Third Xiangya Hospital, he oversees the construction of the transplant discipline and the transplant center.

On March 17, 2007, French President Jacques Chirac unveiled the Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University. Ye Qifa was hired as the Director of the research institute and Vice President of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University. He has been engaged in general surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, tumor surgery, and liver transplantation for more than 20 years[19], and is good at liver transplantation.

WHDX-ZNYY002 Ye Shaojun

Position and Title: Associate Chief Surgeon, Doctor of Surgery, Deputy Director of Ward of Hepatobiliary Disease Research Institute, Central South Hospital of Wuhan University.

Personal Profile:

He graduated from Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and obtained his master's and doctor’s degrees in Xiangya Medical College of Central South University. Ye Shaojun is the nephew of Ye Qifa. He followed his uncle Ye Qifa to work in the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University for 7 years, and then followed Ye Qifa to the Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases of Central South Hospital of Wuhan University and the Center for Transplantation Medicine of Wuhan University. He has been engaged in general surgery and liver and kidney transplantation clinical work for more than ten years[20], and is good at liver transplantation.

WHDX-ZNYY003 Zhang Yi

Position and Title: Associate Chief Surgeon of the Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases

Personal Profile: From 2002 to 2005, he studied for a Ph.D. at the Institute of Organ Transplantation, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, mainly engaged in basic and clinical research on liver and kidney transplantation. He used to be the Director of the First Department of General Surgery and the Deputy Director of the Transplantation Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University. He led the establishment of liver transplant work in the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University and made the work routine[21].

WHDX-ZNYY004 Peng Guizhu

Position and Title: Chief Surgeon and Professor of Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases

Personal Profile: He has been engaged in clinical and basic research in hepatobiliary surgery and transplant surgery for more than 20 years. He can independently complete the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in hepatobiliary surgery (including laparoscopic surgery and organ transplantation)[22].

WHDX-ZNYY005 Yuan Wenyong

Position and Title: Associate Chief Surgeon of Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases

Personal Profile: He graduated from the Department of Clinical Medicine, Harbin Medical University in 1991, and received a doctorate in medicine from Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University in 2007. He used to work in the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University.[23]

WHDX-ZNYY006 Wang Yanfeng

Position and Title: Chief Surgeon and Professor of Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases

Personal Profile: He studied and worked at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania from 2002 to 2011, and has accumulated rich experience in liver and kidney transplantation, islet cell transplantation and stem cell transplantation. He once studied vascular microanastomosis at Columbia University Plastic Surgery Hospital and obtained a certificate of advanced microsurgery. His main research direction is heart or heart-lung transplantation[24].

WHDX-ZNYY007 Zhao Jinping

Position and Title: Chief Surgeon and professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Personal Profile: He graduated from the Department of Medicine of Tongji Medical University in July 1983, received a master's degree in thoracic and cardiothoracic surgery from the same school in 1986, and received a doctorate in medicine in 2006. He is good at kidney transplantation[25].

WHDX-ZNYY008 Zheng Xinmin
Position and Title: Chief Surgeon, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Urology

Personal Profile: He took the lead in carrying out piggyback liver transplantation, isolated and semi-isolated autologous liver transplantation, and combined autologous and allogeneic liver transplantation in China. He has ten domestic and international improved leading technologies related to piggyback liver transplantation. The types, modified procedures, number of cases, success rate, and survival time of piggyback liver transplantation performed by him are all in the leading position in China. He created many national No. 1 records. He changed the lagging situation of organ transplantation in Hunan Province, established the only Engineering Technology Research Center for Transplant Medicine of the Ministry of Health in China, and won the highest honor of the "Special Contribution Award" of the Furong Scholars Program of Hunan Province in 2009. He has completed more than 600 liver transplants and more than 1300 kidney transplants[26].

WHDX-ZNYY009 Sun Peilong

Position and Title: Associate Chief Surgeon of Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases

Personal Profile: He can independently complete the resection and repair of the donor liver. He is proficient in the diagnosis and treatment of liver transplantation, and is good at liver transplants[27].

References

[1] Introduction to Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University

https://baike.baidu.com/item /6399366?fromtitle= &fromid=7868961

[2] Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University

http://www.znhospital.com/DoctorDetail.aspx?did=28

WOIPFG archive link:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/880.png

[3] Introduction to Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University

http://web.archive.org/web/20201116134310/https://www.haodf.com/faculty…

[4] The Office of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China: “The three towns of Wuhan greeted Chirac in costumes“

https://archive.is/wbNdx

[5] baike.baidu.com: About Ye Qifa

https://archive.is/UWHSV

[6] Website of the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China:

“List of Hospitals Approved for Human Organ Transplant Programs“, August 1, 2013

http://web.archive.org/web/20150316003254/http://www.moh.gov.cn/zhuzhan/sjcx/201308/1ef2115e6ce84414b28bcc4b608d0910.shtml

[7] Chinese Journal of Transplantation (Electronic Version), Issue 04, 2013, pages 195-199

“ Diagnostic value of serum procalcitonin detection for pulmonary infection after renal transplantation“

Authors: Fan Lin, Ye Qifa, Zhong Zibiao, Ming Yingzi, Ye Shaojun, Wang Yanfeng

[8] Chinese Journal of Hepatobiliary Surgery, 2013 Volume 19 Issue 02 Pages 105-107

“ Analysis of clinical efficacy of liver transplantation in 64 cases of fatty degeneration donor livers“

Authors: Ye Qifa, Ming Yingzi, Zhao Jie, Peng Guizhu, Zhang Yi