Yan Lvnan
Summary: Yan Lyunan, Chief Surgeon, is the Director of the General Surgery Department and the Liver Transplant Center at West China Hospital of Sichuan University. In 1999, he started leading the implementation of clinical liver transplants, having performed over 1,035 procedures to date. In 2002, the hospital's Hepatobiliary Surgery Department was approved as a key laboratory for transplant engineering and transplant immunology by the Ministry of Health.
The Liver Transplant Center once performed seven liver transplants in a single day, making it one of the units in the country capable of conducting multiple liver transplants within a single workday. In 2006, a nurse from the hospital's Kidney Transplant Center told a reporter from Sound of Hope in a recorded interview that they performed six kidney transplants in one day, indicating a large volume of kidney sources. The center has a transplant ward with 72 beds and can simultaneously complete five liver transplants. Phone investigation recordings revealed a high volume of liver and kidney transplants, multiple transplant teams, and the use of 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, and since the West China Hospital, Sichuan University has been involved in the crime, Yan Lyunan, the Director of the hospital's Liver
Transplant Center, is a major suspect in the case.
Yan Lynan
Position and Title: Chief Surgeon, Director of the Department of General Surgery, Director of the Liver Transplant Center, Director of the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Research Laboratory, professor of surgery, doctoral supervisor
Personal Profile: He graduated from Chongqing Medical University in 1967. Then he successively obtained a master's degree and a doctorate in medicine from Sichuan University (formerly West China Medical University). He started research on animal experiments with whole liver transplantation and semi -liver transplantation, as well as research on liver regeneration after liver removal in 1994. After returning from studying in Japan in 1987, he started research in liver surgery and liver cancer gene therapy. In 1999, he began to lead clinical liver transplants and has completed more than 1035 cases[1]. From 2001 to October 2008, the hospital performed nearly 200 living donor liver transplants (including more than 180 living donor liver transplants between adults), which is the largest number in mainland China. [2]
In 2002, the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery was approved as the Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Ministry of Health[3].
The Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery is home to the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Research Laboratory, Ministry of Health, which is a key national discipline[4]. It is also one of the few pancreas transplant centers in China and has carried out combined pancreas-kidney transplants.
The Liver Transplant Center once performed seven liver transplants in a single day, and it is one of the hospitals in China that can carry out multiple liver transplants in one day[5]. In 2006, in a telephone investigation carried out by a reporter from Voice of Hope, a nurse from the Kidney Transplant Center, West China Hospital, said they once performed six kidney transplants in one day, with abundant kidney sources[6].
According to the comprehensive estimation of the hardware facilities, the number of beds in the liver transplantation center, and the hospital's high -illness turning rate, the liver and kidney transplantation is large in number each year. Relying on the key disciplines of the Ministry of Education – “the General Surgery Department of West China Hospital and the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Research Laboratory of the Ministry of Health, the Liver Transplant Center of West China Hospital, Sichuan University (formerly the First Affiliated Hospital of West China Medical University) was established based on the Liver Transplantation Collaborative Team of West China Hospital. It combines the talents and technical advantages of various disciplines and is an interdisciplinary and interprofessional medical and research institution, integrating medical treatment, teaching, and scientific research. The Center includes a 72-bed transplant ward, a transplant immunity laboratory, and a microcirculation and tissue matching laboratory[7]”.
The Center has a set of imported equipment and five complete sets of liver transplant surgery equipment, making it possible to perform five liver transplant surgeries at the same time[8].
Telephone Investigation Recordings: large number of transplants, multiple transplantation teams, practitioners used as organ donors
“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 more.
Investigation Respondent: A nurse in the kidney transplant ward of West China Hospital, Sichuan University[9]”
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 Date: 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 doctor-on-duty, liver transplant, West China Hospital, Sichuan University[11]
Investigation Date: June 6, 2017 (+86-18980601479)
Summary: We’ve been doing lots of liver transplants. Why not? I cannot tell you how many cases we did this year or last. There are people in the hospital specifically responsible for getting donors. Nobody knows the donor situation. The recipient’s family cannot know anything about the donor. Likewise, the donor’s family cannot know anything about the recipient.
(Recording 3vDownload MP3, for complete transcript please see Addendum 74)
Investigation Respondent: Professor Wen Tianfu, liver transplant, West China Hospital, Sichuan University[12]
Investigation Date: June 15, 2017 (+86-18980601471)
Summary:
- For liver or kidney transplants, fees at West China Hospital are the cheapest in the world.
- In terms of kidney transplants, West China Hospital ranks first in both quantity and quality in China.
- (We do) around 500 kidney and liver transplants (per year). Among them, there are more than 100 liver transplants per year. We do more kidney transplants.
- The hospital has a specific queuing system managed by one person. We are not involved in it.
- Another liver source is donation. There are so-called coordinators from the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
- In terms of kidney transplants, (West China Hospital) ranks first in China in both quantity and quality.
- Especially living donor kidney (transplants), they cannot handle it.
- Donors are mainly from hospitals in other places.
- Q: Those we used in the past, those death row inmates or qi gong practitioners, those that are healthy and decease free, can we still get that type by paying more money?
A: They are long gone. We have stopped using them since January 2015.
(Recording 4. Download: MP3; Transcript Download: pdf 5)
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 at 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.”[13]
Reference
[1] 《四川大学华西医院》严律南简介
Introduction to Yan Lvnan, West China Hospital of Sichuan University
https://web.archive.org/web/20240518184315/https://www.organtranspl.com…
[2] 《四川大学华西医院》专家介绍 严律南http://www.cd120.com/htmlzjglganzangjixueguanwai/55029.jhtml
Expert introduction of West China Hospital of Sichuan University Yan Lvnan http://www.cd120.com/htmlzjglganzangjixueguanwai/55029.jhtml
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[3] Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Ministry of Health
Source: Base Construction and Management Section / Update Date: 2014-11-20
http://kyy.scu.edu.cn/Document/ArticlePage?Id=%20211
WOIPFG archive link:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06170…
[4] Good Doctors Online (https://www.haodf.com/): An introduction to the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, West China Hospital
http://www.haodf.com/faculty/DE4rO-XCoLUn-brccTieBvzKOb/jieshao.htm
WOIPFG archive link:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06170…
[5] Biology website: Liver transplant specialist Yan Lvnan
http://gz.shengwuxuewang.cn /f/ h/b.html
WOIPFG archive link:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2015/59389_685.j…
http://www.upholdjustice.org/sites/default/files/report/2015/325-685.jpg
[6] Recording on minghui.org: A military hospital speaks out about using kidneys of Falun Gong
practitioners, May 2,2006
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/5/2/126638.html
[7] An introduction to the Liver Transplant Center of West China Hospital, Sichuan University
http://www.cd120.com/htmlylfwganyizhizhongxin/518.jhtml
WOIPFG archive link:
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[8] An introduction to the Liver Transplant Center of West China Hospital, Sichuan University
http://www.cd120.com/htmlylfwganyizhizhongxin/518.jhtml
WOIPFG archive link:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/683.png
[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] 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
[12] A WOIPFG Investigation Report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Crime of Live Organ Harvesting against Falun Dafa Practitioners
Investigation period: July 2016 - June 2017
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/389
[13] news.chengdu.cn: The first Organ Donor Cemetery in Sichuan Province was Launched, 2016-04-01
