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WOIPFG’s Investigative Report on the Alleged Organ Harvesting of Living Falun Gong Practitioners by Zhou Jiangqiao, Director of Organ Transplant, Wuhan University People’s Hospital
Feb 13, 2025

Zhou Jiangqiao, male

Position and Title: Director of the Department of Organ Transplantation, chief surgeon, master student supervisor

Personal Profile: He is a member of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a standing committee member of the Organ Transplantation Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and a deputy director level member of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Hubei Provincial Medical Association. He is also an editorial board member of various magazines, including "Chinese Journal of Transplantation (Electronic Edition)", "Organ Transplantation", and "Journal of Wuhan University (Medical Edition). He has been engaged in organ transplantation for fifteen years and has so far completed nearly a thousand kidney transplants on uremia patients[1].    

Wuhan University People’s Hospital is one of the first medical institutions in China to carry out organ transplants, and various organ transplant surgeries have been performed there[2]. Kidney transplantation is a specialty of its Urology Department, with the number of transplants ranking first in Hubei Province[3]. The hospital is one of the largest hospitals in Wuhan City that does organ transplants. In 2006, a witnesses stated that Wuhan Tongji Hospital, Hubei Province People’s Hospital, and Wuhan Army General Hospital were the largest hospitals in Wuhan engaged in organ transplants, mainly kidney transplants[4]. In 2006, during a WOIPFG telephone investigation, both Wuhan Tongji Hospital and Wuhan Army General Hospital admitted to using organs from Falun Gong practitioners[5].

The hospital's urology department performs kidney transplants, and by 2015, the hospital had performed more than 600 kidney transplants, and also performed liver, heart and lung transplants during the same period. Under Zhou Jiangqiao's advocacy, the Organ Transplantation Department of Wuhan University People’s Hospital was officially established on June 29, 2015.

At present, the hospital's annual number of kidney transplants ranks among the top in China. In 2018, the hospital performed 412 kidney transplants, ranking sixth in the country. In 2019, the hospital performed 483 kidney transplants, ranking second in the country, and 42 heart transplants, ranking fourth in the country. As of September 2022, more than 2,000 patients had received kidney transplants in the hospital.[6]

Telephone investigations reveal large number of organ transplants.

Investigation Respondent: A kidney transplant doctor at the Transplantation Department of People’s Hospital of Wuhan University[7]

Investigation Date: April 16, 2017 (+86-2788041919)

Summary: We did more than 100 cases last year. We have done at least 30 to 40 cases this year, and that is the minimum number. It should be more than that, two were done today.

(Recording 1 Download MP3. For complete recording transcript please see Addendum 68)

Investigation Respondent: Dr. Chen at the Doctor’s Office of Kidney Transplantation of People’s Hospital of Wuhan University

Investigation Date: October 29, 2017（+86-2786708757）

Summary: We have done nearly 200 kidney transplants this year. There were both young and old donors. [8] ……

(Recording 2 Download MP3. For complete recording transcript please read: pdf addendum)

Investigation Respondent: Doctor’s office at the Transplantation Department of People’s Hospital of Wuhan University

Investigation Date: October 30, 2017（+86-2786708757）

Summary: We have done less than 100 liver transplants this year. We mainly do kidney transplants and have performed over 300 cases this year.[9]

(Recording 3 Download MP3. For complete recording transcript please read: pdf addendum)

 

Reference

[1] Zhou Jiangqiao, Director of the Organ Transplantation Department of Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University

http://www.rmhospital.com/884/88421.aspx?id=358204

http://archive.is/DxvCF

[2] Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University: "Our Hospital has Comprehensively Carried Out Various Organ Transplant Surgeries", 2014-06-08

http://gw.yiyaoxueba.cn/k/a/f.html

WOIPFG archive link:

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[3] Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University: "Our Hospital has Comprehensively Carried Out Various Organ Transplant Surgeries", 2014-06-08

http://gw.yiyaoxueba.cn/k/a/f.html

WOIPFG archive link:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/795.png

[4] Minghui.org Investigation Lead: Report on Organ Transplantation Situation in Wuhan’s Hospitals

[5] Collection of Evidence of Live Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party, September 11, 2013

https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/241

[6] 《人民视点》乘东风，武汉大学人民医院器官捐献与移植事业再启航

发布：武汉大学人民医院 时间：2022-09-27
https://archive.is/CsnAK                                                                     

[7] A WOIPFG Investigation Report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Crime of Live Organ Harvesting against Falun Dafa Practitioners (III)

https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/389

[8] A WOIPFG Investigation Report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Crime of Live Organ Harvesting against Falun Dafa Practitioners (V)

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/96870

[9] A WOIPFG Investigation Report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Crime of Live Organ Harvesting against Falun Dafa Practitioners (V)

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/96870