Lin Tao
Summary: Lin Tao is the Deputy Director of the Organ Transplant Center at West China Hospital of Sichuan University. In 2017, the hospital's kidney transplant volume ranked first nationwide, with "kidney transplants being performed every day." As of 2015, the Urology Department had the highest number of beds in the country. The actual number of transplants performed by the hospital far exceeds the number of organ donations in Sichuan Province. Phone investigations revealed an annual kidney transplant volume of 500 cases, with transplants occurring daily and sources of donors unclear. In the past they used donors who practiced Falun Gong.
In view of the broader background of the Chinese Communist Party's state crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, since the West China Hospital, Sichuan University is a likely party in the crime, Lin Tao, the deputy director of the hospital's Transplant Center, is a major suspect.
Lin Tao, Deputy Director of the Organ Transplantation Center, Academic and Technical Director of the Sichuan Provincial Health Department, Deputy Director-level member of the Kidney Transplantation Committee of the Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, Deputy Director-level member of the Youth Committee of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, and Standing Member of the Dialysis Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering. Associate Chief Surgeon of Urology, Professor. Member of the British Organ Transplantation Association [1]
Personal Profile: He was a resident surgeon in 1994. In 2002, he received a doctorate in surgery from West China Clinical Medical College of Sichuan University and served as an attending surgeon in urology. In 2007, he became an associate professor of urology at West China Hospital, Sichuan University. From October 2003 to September 2006, he worked and studied at the MRC Organ Transplant Center and the Department of Kidney Transplantation at King's College London, UK. His clinical work focuses on kidney transplantation. [2]
The Kidney Transplant Center of the hospital is one of the earliest hospitals in China to carry out kidney transplants. It is a key discipline of Sichuan Province, Chengdu City, and Sichuan University[3]. As of 2015, the number of ward beds in the Urology Department is the largest in China[4].
In 2017, the number of kidney transplants ranks first in China. “Kidney transplants are being done every day.”
According to a report on sina.com in 2018, the kidney transplant surgeries of West China Hospital, Sichuan University set multiple national records in 2017[5].
In 2017, the kidney transplants of West China Hospital ranked first in China in:
- The total number was No.1 in China, which was 481.
- The number of living donor kidney transplants was No. 1 in China, which was 280.
- The number of blood group incompatible kidney transplants was No. 1 in China, which was 12.
- Besides, Prof. Lin Tao ranked first in China in laparoscopic minimally invasive kidney extraction and has completed more than 1,000 cases in total.
The official website of the Kidney Transplant Center has tampered with data, and the number of kidney transplants displayed has shrunk severely.
According to an Introduction to the Kidney Transplant Center of West China Hospital, Sichuan University, issued in February 2005, from September 1978, when the first kidney transplant was done till then, the Center performed more than 4,000 kidney transplant surgeries[6]. Yet, in September 2014, the number of kidney transplants shown on its official website was severely shrunk[7]: “…the Center has performed more than 2,500 kidney transplants. Starting from 2011, the number of kidney transplants performed by the Center has exceeded 200 annually.”
The actual number of organ transplants performed in the hospital far exceeds the number of organ donations in Sichuan Province.
From 2012 to the end of March 2016, in Sichuan Province, there were about 150 organ donations through the Red Cross system, including 63 donations through West China Hospital. “Only two donations were received in 2012 and ten in 2013. From January to March this year (2016), there were twenty donations.”[8]
Telephone Investigation shows: “We did 500 kidney transplants last year. We do kidney transplants every day. The sources of organs are unknown. The practitioners’ organs are not allowed to be used any longer.[9]
Investigation Respondent: A nurse with the kidney transplant ward of West China Hospital, Sichuan University”
Investigation Date: March 31, 2016 (+86-2885422925)
Summary:
- We do a lot. We do a lot. Our kidney transplants...our entire ward is for kidney transplant (patients).
- (For kidney transplants,) we did the most in the whole country.
- We do (kidney transplants) every day.
(Recording 1. Download: MP3; Transcript Download: pdf 175)
Investigation Respondent: A nurse-on-duty in the kidney transplant ward of West China Hospital, Sichuan University[10]
Investigation Time: April 6, 2017 (+86 28-85422925)
Summary: We did 300 to 400 kidney transplants last year. Now the departments are very finely divided, and here we also do liver transplants, heart transplants, brain transplants, and kidney transplants.
(Download Recording 2 MP3，please see Addendum 73)
Investigation Respondent: A nurse in the kidney transplant ward of West China Hospital, Sichuan University[11]
Investigation Date: December 15, 2017 (+86-2885422925)
Summary:
- The number of kidney transplants we do increases every year!
- We do (kidney transplants) every day. There’s a designated person who counts the number of transplants. I cannot tell you casually…
- Anyway, we’ve done several hundred (kidney transplants). I don’t know the exact number.
- Register under Lin Tao or Wang Li. They are directors.
(Recording 3. Download: MP3; Transcript Download: pdf 176)
Investigation Respondent: A nurse in the kidney transplant ward of West China Hospital
Investigation Date: June 7, 2018 (+86-2885422925)
Summary: We do a lot of kidney transplants. We did more than 500 kidney transplants last year. [12]
(Recording 4 download MP3. For complete transcript, please see pdf )
Investigation Respondent: A nurse in the kidney transplant ward of West China Hospital[13]
Investigation Date: April 14, 2019 (+86-2885422925)
Summary: We do several hundred transplants per year, and we’ve been doing this for more than ten years.
(Recording 5. Download: MP3; Transcript Download: pdf 041)
Investigation Respondent: A nurse in the kidney transplant ward of West China Hospital[14]
Investigation Date: October 15, 2019 (+86-028-85422925)
Summary: The surgeons who do kidney transplants are Lin Tao, Wang Li, Fan Yu, Huang Zhongli. They have transplant teams.
(Recording 6. Download: MP3; Translation Download: pdf 125)
Reference
[1] 《四川大学华西医院》林涛简介
https://web.archive.org/web/20240504041241/https://www.wchscu.cn/news/d…
[2] Good Doctors Online (https://www.haodf.com/): An Introduction to Doctor Lin Tao
http://www.haodf.com/doctor/DE4r0BCkuHzdeGmHuwqr5q33q1fJD.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20140420005347/http://www.haodf.com/doctor/…
[3] An introduction to the Kidney Transplant Center of West China Hospital, Sichuan University
http://www.cd120.com/htmlylfwshenzangyizhizhongx/811.jhtml
WOIPFG archive link:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/681.png
[4] An introduction to the Department of Urology of West China Hospital, Sichuan University
Release time: 2015-06-01
http://www.cd120.com/htmlzkjswaikexingkeshimini/4997.jhtml
WOIPFG archive link:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06170…
[5] (Sichuan University media) Sichuan News Network: The total number of kidney transplants in West China Hospital, Sichuan University in 2017 reached 481, ranking first in China
January 18, 2018
http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2018-01-18/doc-ifyquixe3876808.shtml
http://web.archive.org/web/20201013193602/http://news.sina.com.cn/o/201…
[6] An introduction to the Kidney Transplant Center of West China Hospital, Sichuan University
Release time: 2005-02-22
http://www.cd120.com/htmlylfwshenzangyizhizhongx/811.jhtml
WOIPFG archive link:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/325.png
[7] An introduction to the Kidney Transplant Center of West China Hospital, Sichuan University
Release time: 2014-09-13
http://www.cd120.com/htmlzkjswaikexingkeshimini/66669.jhtml
WOIPFG archive link:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/327.png
[8] news.chengdu.cn: The first Organ Donor Cemetery in Sichuan Province was Launched, 2016-04-01
http://news.chengdu.cn/2016/0401/1776951.shtml
[9] WOIPFG. “WOIPFG’s Latest Investigation Results: in the Name of ‘Organ Donation’, CCP Continues to Harvest Organs from a Large Number of Living Falun Gong Practitioners.” July 15, 2016. http://www.upholdjustice.org/node/358
[10] A WOIPFG Investigation Report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Crime of Live Organ Harvesting against Falun Dafa Practitioners (III)
https://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/72524
[11] WOIPFG. “WOIPFG’s Investigation Report on Status Quo of the CCP’s Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Dafa Practitioners (V).” July 20, 2018.
https://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/96870
[12] A WOIPFG Investigation Report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Crime of Live Organ Harvesting against Falun Dafa Practitioners (V)
https://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/96870
[13] WOIPFG’s 2019 Comprehensive Investigation Results regarding the Chinese Communist Party’s Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Dafa Practitioners
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/125981
[14] WOIPFG’s 2019 Comprehensive Investigation Results regarding the Chinese Communist Party’s Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Dafa Practitioners
