Wang Yi
Wang Yi, Professor, Doctor of Medicine, Doctoral Supervisor, President of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College, Director of Hainan Institute of Transplantation Medicine. Member at director level of Hainan Provincial Organ Transplantation Professional Committee.[1] Graduated from Hengyang Medical College in 1988 and stayed on to work there. In 2000, he studied in the Advanced Seminar of Beijing University Institute of Urology. In 2002, he was admitted to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology to study for a doctorate. After graduating in July 2005, he went to Hokkaido University, Japan to study urology. In July 2009, he went to study at Cleveland Medical Center in the United States. He specializes in kidney transplantation.
In 2017, Hainan Medical College Second Affiliated Hospital headed by Wang Yi, established the Hainan Medical College Transplant Medicine Research Institute, which consists of a basics department and a clinical department.[2]On April 25, 2018, Huang Jiefu, former vice minister of the Ministry of Health and chairman of the Chinese Human Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee, Guo Yanhong, deputy director of the Medical Administration Bureau of the National Health Commission, and Zheng Shusen, president of Shulan Hospital, came to the hospital to guide the organ transplant work and proposed that the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College should carry out major organ transplants such as heart, lung, liver, pancreas, and kidney, and build it into a training base for transplant medical talents in the countries along the Belt and Road policy.[3] Professor Wang Yi, chairman of the Fourth Organ Transplantation Professional Committee of Hainan Province and president of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College, said that efforts should be made to build Hainan into a training base for organ transplant doctors in the countries along the Belt and Road and an international transplant science research center.[4]
The Department of Organ Transplantation was established on July 31, 2018, with 34 beds (including 8 transplant ICU beds); 8 transplant specialists, 4 anesthesiologists, 2 intensive care specialists, and 4 specially-appointed cardiopulmonary transplant specialists.[5]In March 2018, Professor Wang Yi became a member of the National Organ Transplant Professional Committee. On July 31, 2018, the organ transplant department was officially established.[6]
On May 15, 2021, a reporter learned from the 2021 annual meeting of the Organ Transplantation Professional Committee of the Hainan Medical Association that in 2020, member units of the Fourth Hainan Organ Transplantation Professional Committee completed a total of 138 organ transplant operations, of which 29 were liver transplant operations, 99 kidney transplantation, 3 pancreas-kidney transplantation, 1 heart transplantation, and 6 lung transplantation.[7]
From the opening of the department on July 31, 2018 to March 2022, the liver transplant team of the Second Hospital of Hainan Medical College performed a total of 106 liver transplant operations.[8] From the beginning of 2022 to September, 154 organ failure patients received transplants.[9]
Telephone Investigation
1. "There are patients who had their surgeries on the day they were admitted into the hospital. A surgery can be arranged in about four or five days"
Investigation Respondent: Doctor with Kidney Transplant at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College[10]
Investigation Date: October 18, 2018
Summary: The hospital has been doing kidney transplantation for more than ten years, and now it has expanded. With the official opening of the Department of Transplantation in July it is doing more. Dozens of cases have been done in the past two months. The waiting time varies, and there were those who received their surgeries on their day arrival.
(Recording 1. download: MP3; transcript download: pdf attachment 56)
Investigation Respondent: Gao Lianghui, director of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College (Chief Surgeon)[11]
Investigation Date: March 19, 2019 (+86-17733192929)
Summary: Now it’s all brain-dead donors, it could be right away, and it could be a month or two.
(Recording 2 download: MP3, transcript download: pdf026)
Investigation Respondent: Zhang Shanbin, doctor with Kidney Transplant at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College (formerly the Hospital of the General Bureau of Agricultural Reclamation of Hainan Province)
Investigation Date: March 1, 2019 (+86-898-66809311)[12]
Summary: It can be done in about four or five days after medical check-up.
(Recording 3 download: MP3, transcript download: pdf027)
2. "Many people in our hospital do kidney transplants, and some do it on Saturdays. We did 200 last year."
Investigation Respondent: Kidney transplant doctor with Urology II, Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College
Investigation Date: April 23, 2019 (+86-898-66808472)
Summary: We can do hundreds of cases a year. There are many people waiting in line!
Q: Where do the kidneys come from?
A: How do I know?
(Recording 4 download: MP3, transcript download: pdf046)
Investigation Respondent: Nurse with General Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College
Investigation Date: October 15, 2019 (+86-898-66808103)
Summary: Of course we did it. Our hospital is the best in this kind of surgery. Many people here do it! Many people do kidney transplants. There are many people who do kidney transplants in our hospital, more than other transplants. Some people also do it on Saturdays.
(Recording 2 Download: MP3, transcript download: pdf126)
Investigation Respondent: Li, a nurse with Kidney Transplant, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College[13]
Investigation Date: April 11, 2020 (+86-89866809311)
Summary:
1. Our hospital used to be a designated hospital.
2. Our Director Zhou does not work in the outpatient clinic. Director Jiang comes on Mondays and President Wang comes on Wednesdays.
3. For pneumonia examinations, the patient has to pay the clinic fees. CT scans may cost several hundred yuan.
4. The number of transplants for patients during the pandemic was relatively low, but we were still doing it. We will do it as soon as there are donors.
5. Last year, we did about 100 or 200.
6. Q: Are there any Falun Gong donors?
A: I don’t know. We nurses are not in charge of the donors. We don’t know the basic information about the donors. So if you want to know anything about the donors, you can ask the doctors.
(Recording 6 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf035)
In 2023, a doctor on duty at the Liver Transplantation Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College: “Compared to the mainland, Hainan gets organs allocated faster. Hainan surely gets organs allocated faster than the mainland, that’s for sure. There are more donors here than in the mainland, that is, the ratio is higher. The wait time is about half of that on the mainland.”
(Recording 7 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf15)
References
[1] Baidu Encyclopedia: Wang Yihttp://archive.is/gqJRz
[2]Organ Transplantation Center, Second Clinical College, Hainan Medical Collegehttps://web.archive.org/web/20200814153300/http://www.shhmu.net/html/keshi/linchuangkeshi/waike/qiguanyizhike/
[3]海南医学院第二临床学院 器官移植中心
[4]《南海网》海南将打造国际移植科学研究中心2021-05-17
https://web.archive.org/web/20221220021908/https://hn.house.163.com/21/…
[5]海南医学院第二临床学院 器官移植中心
[6]海南医学院第二临床学院 器官移植中心
[7] Nanhai Net: Hainan will build an international scientific research center for transplantation 2021-05-17https://web.archive.org/web/20221220021908/https://hn.house.163.com/21/…
[8] Sina Hainan: Liver transplant for a new life! The 100th liver transplant patient in the Second Hospital of Hainan Medical College was discharged smoothly March 22, 2022https://web.archive.org/web/20221220021501/https://hainan.sina.cn/news/…
[9]The Second Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College: " Life Relay｜Six large organ transplants completed in 18 hours, "Adventures of Rebirth" created by love 2022-09-15https://web.archive.org/web/20221220021425/http://www.shhmu.net/cn/ynxw…
[10]http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/111444
[11]Summary of WOIPFG's 2019 Investigation into the CCP's Organ Harvesting of Living Falun Gong Practitioners
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/125981
[12]Summary of WOIPFG's 2019 Investigation into the CCP's Organ Harvesting of Living Falun Gong Practitioners
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/125981
[13]《2020年上半年追查国际对中共活摘法轮功学员器官现状调查综述》http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/128615
