Wu Xiaotong
Summary: Wu Xiaotong is the Director of the Shanxi Provincial Human Organ Procurement and Distribution Service Center, the Chief Expert (former Director) of the Organ Transplant Center at the Second People's Hospital of Shanxi Province, and Chief Surgeon. The Kidney Transplant Dialysis Center, established in October 1997, is currently the largest and most well-equipped specialized center in the province. It was one of the first hospitals approved by the Ministry of Health to carry out kidney transplant projects in 2007, ranking in the top 20 nationwide for five consecutive years and entering the "National Top Fifteen."
Wu Xiaotong once worked continuously for 12 hours to perform transplant surgeries, completing 11 kidney transplants in a single day on August 15, 2006. According to incomplete data, as of December 2023, the Kidney Transplant Dialysis Center, under Wu Xiaotong's leadership, has completed over 3,000 kidney transplants. In 2019, the center ranked 20th in China for the number of kidney transplants performed. Investigation recordings by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) revealed a high volume of transplants.
In view of the broader background of the Chinese Communist Party's state crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, since the Second People's Hospital of Shanxi Province is allegedly involved in the crime, Wu Xiaotong, the Director of the Shanxi Provincial Human Organ Procurement and Distribution Service Center and former Director of the Organ Transplant Center, is a major suspect.
Wu Xiaotong is the Director of the Shanxi Provincial Human Organ Procurement and Distribution Service Center, the Chief Expert (former Director) of the Organ Transplant Center at the Second People's Hospital of Shanxi Province[1], and Chief Surgeon. He is also the Honorary Director and Chief Expert of the Kidney Transplant Dialysis Center. Additionally, he holds several prestigious positions, including Standing Committee Member of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, Standing Committee Member of the Organ Transplant Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Director-level member of the Organ Transplant Professional Committee of the Shanxi Medical Association, and Member of the Kidney Transplant Group of the Urology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association[2].
From May 1992 to May 2005, Wu participated in completing 610 kidney transplant surgeries[3]. From January 2006 to December 2008, he was involved in completing 235 kidney transplants[4]. Between May 1992 and April 2000, he participated in performing 249 kidney transplants and donor procurements, using the rapid en bloc nephrectomy method, with donors aged 18 to 45 [5].
The Kidney Transplant Dialysis Center, established in October 1997, has become the largest, best-equipped, and most advanced specialized center in the province. It was one of the first hospitals approved by China’s Ministry of Health in 2007 to carry out kidney transplant projects. The center undertakes over 90% of the kidney transplant work in Shanxi Province and is one of the few specialized treatment centers in China that integrates kidney transplantation, blood purification, urology, and nephrology. The center is a "Key Medical Discipline and Provincial Clinical Key Specialty in Shanxi Province," ranking in the top 20 nationwide for five consecutive years and entering the "National Top Fifteen." [6]
The cost of a kidney transplant at the center is approximately 100,000 yuan, and in 2005, the center generated a revenue of 250 million yuan. In August 2006, the number of patients waiting for a transplant was over 100 daily, and on August 15 alone, 11 kidney transplants were performed[7]. The center's director, Wu Xiaotong, a Standing Committee Member of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and Chairman of the Shanxi Transplant Professional Committee, once worked 12 consecutive hours performing transplant surgeries, filling many gaps in Shanxi's kidney transplant capabilities[8].
The center has more than 180 medical staff, including 5 chief surgeons, 9 associate chief surgeons, 1 associate chief nurse, and 4 associate chief technicians. More than 60% of the surgeons hold a master's degree. The center has 90 open beds, including the kidney transplant ward, kidney transplant intensive care unit, nephrology ward, blood purification center, and laboratory. It has 12 independent transplant intensive care beds.
The center has developed advanced organ transplant technologies that are leading in China, such as pediatric kidney transplants, dual-donor kidney transplants for infants, pediatric donor kidney transplants, adult dual-donor kidney transplants, highly sensitized kidney transplants, ABO-incompatible transplants, and pancreas-kidney combined transplants. The number of kidney transplants performed has increased from an annual average of around 100 to over 150. In 2019, the center ranked 20th nationwide for the number of kidney transplants performed[9].
As of December 2023, under the leadership of Professor Wu Xiaotong, the Kidney Transplant Dialysis Center has completed over 3,000 kidney transplants[10].
Telephone investigation shows that the number of transplants is huge.
Investigation Respondent: Kidney transplant nurse at the Second People’s Hospital of Shanxi Province
Investigation Date: May 6, 2017（+86+ 14797169153）
Summary: We do at least more than 100 [kidney] transplants every year. We have performed nearly 100 [kidney] transplants [since the beginning of] this year.
(Recording 1. Download: MP3; Transcript Download: pdf 89)
Investigation Respondent: the Nurses’ Office of the Kidney Transplant Department of the Second People’s Hospital of Shanxi Province
Investigation Date: August 30, 2017（+86+ 14797169142）
Summary: We now have a Kidney Transplant Center. We are a specialty center. We have done more than 100 transplants this year.” [351]
(Recording 2. Download: MP3; Transcript Download: pdf 12)
Investigation Respondent: Doctor with Dialysis Room, the Second People’s Hospital of Shanxi Province
Investigation Date: August 30, 2017（+86+ 14797169154）
Doctor: We’ve done quite a lot of kidney transplants. This year there have been more than 100 transplants done!
(Recording 3. Download: MP3; for complete recording transcript, please read: pdf 13)
Investigation Respondent: Wang Huiying, Head Nurse of Kidney Transplant, the Second People’s Hospital of Shanxi Province
Investigation Date: March 21, 2019 (+86-13623665678)
Summary: We do a lot of kidney transplants! More than 100 cases. We did 150 cases last year.
(Recording 4. Download: MP3; Transcript Download: pdf 031)
Investigation Respondent: Nurse at the Kidney Transplant Nurse Station of the Second People's Hospital of Shanxi Province
Investigation Date: April 24, 2020
Phone Number: (+86-14797169153)（+86-14797169153）
Summary:
1. There were quite a few donors recently.
2. Dr. Zhixiang Jia did hundreds of transplant cases last year.
(Recording 5 download: MP3, transcript download: pdf054)
Investigation Respondent: Nurse from the Kidney Transplant Department’s Ward at the Third People’s Hospital of Datong
Investigation Date: September 11, 2017（+86+ 3525556292）
Nurse: It’s hard to wait for a kidney donor here with us. The hospitals in Taiyuan do a lot of transplants, they do more than a dozen transplants in one day! We did two organ transplants last year, and the ones done were for the government officials. They found kidney sources themselves. They donors were brought here from Taiyuan.
(Recording 6. Download: MP3; for complete recording transcript, please read pdf 15)
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[2] 《山西省第二人民医院》武小桐 简介
"Shanxi Second People's Hospital", Wu Xiaotong Introduction
https://web.archive.org/web/20220528225432/https://www.sxsey.cn/home/in…
[3] 《山西医药杂志》 2006年35卷08期 745-746页 （英文期刊名：SHANXI MEDICAL JOURNAL）“肾移植术后应激性溃疡的防治”作者：周华、黄丽萍、王振兴、李宁、贾志缃、武小桐 (山西省第二人民医院,030012)
Shanxi Medical Journal, Vol. 35, No. 8, 2006, pp. 745-746 (English Journal Name: SHANXI MEDICAL JOURNAL) "Prevention and Treatment of Stress Ulcers after Renal Transplantation" Author: Zhou Hua, Huang Liping, Wang Zhenxing, Li Ning, Jia Zhixiang, Wu Xiaotong (Shanxi Second People's Hospital, 030012)
[4] 《实用器官移植电子杂志》 2013年1卷04期 232-234页 （英文期刊名： PRACTICAL JOURNAL OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION(ELECTRONIC VERSION)）“尿毒症患者肾移植术后应用依降钙素防治股骨头坏死的临床观察”作者：郭文萍、李宁、王明君、范钻、宁媛、刘婷婷、赵艳霞、武小桐(山西省第二人民医院肾移植透析中心,山西,太原,030012)
PRACTICAL JOURNAL OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION (ELECTRONIC VERSION) Vol. 1, 2013, No. 4, pp. 232-234. “Clinical observation of elcitonin in the prevention and treatment of femoral head necrosis in patients with uremia after renal transplantation” Authors: Guo Wenping, Li Ning, Wang Mingjun, Fan Zuan, Ning Yuan, Liu Tingting, Zhao Yanxia, Wu Xiaotong (Renal Transplantation and Dialysis Center, Shanxi Second People’s Hospital, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030012)
[5] 《山西医药杂志》 2000年29卷05期 381-382页 （英文期刊名：SHANXI MEDICAL JOURNAL）“尸肾移植249例回顾总结”作 者：周华、武小桐、杨诗玉、黄丽萍、陈再彬、高丽萍、王振兴、卫焘(山西省第二人民医院,030012)
Shanxi Medical Journal, Vol. 29, No. 5, 2000, pp. 381-382 (English journal name: SHANXI MEDICAL JOURNAL) "A review of 249 cases of cadaveric kidney transplantation" Authors: Zhou Hua, Wu Xiaotong, Yang Shiyu, Huang Liping, Chen Zaibin, Gao Liping, Wang Zhenxing, Wei Tao (Shanxi Second People's Hospital, 030012)
[6] 《山西省第二人民医院》医院简介
http://www.sxws.cn/UnitWeb/Web/sey/HosIntro.aspx?flag=yyjj
追查国际存档链接：
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/735.png
"Shanxi Second People's Hospital", Hospital Profile
http://www.sxws.cn/UnitWeb/Web/sey/HosIntro.aspx?flag=yyjj
International Archive Link:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/735.png
[7]《明慧网》山西省第二人民医院8月15日一天做肾移植11例
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/9/11/137584.html
Minghui.org: Shanxi Provincial Second People's Hospital performed 11 kidney transplants on August 15th
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/9/11/137584.html
[8]山西青年报2015年08月20日09版《山西省第二人民医院肾移植透析中心主任武小桐努力做好“肾移植”领域排头兵》
http://www.sxqnb.com.cn/shtml/sxqnb/20150820/104152.shtml
Shanxi Youth Daily, August 20, 2015, p. 9, "Wu Xiaotong, Director of the Renal Transplant and Dialysis Center of Shanxi Second People's Hospital, strives to be a pioneer in the field of "kidney transplantation"
http://www.sxqnb.com.cn/shtml/sxqnb/20150820/104152.shtml
追查国际存档链接：
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/267.png
[9] 《山西省第二人民医院》肾移植透析中心
https://archive.is/LHmsX
《Shanxi Second People's Hospital》 Kidney Transplantation Dialysis Center
[10] 《新浪新闻》健康中国看山西：山西省第二人民医院成功举办“2023肾病、肾移植 临床 检验联动论坛”上游新闻看点
2023.12.2610:52
"Sina News" Healthy China Looks at Shanxi: Shanxi Provincial Second People's Hospital Successfully Held the "2023 Kidney Disease, Kidney Transplantation Clinical Testing Linkage Forum" Upstream News Highlights
2023.12.2610:52
