Chen Huaizhou
Summary: Chen Huaizhou is the Director of the Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) at the No. 924 Hospital of the PLA’s Joint Logistics Support Force (Formerly the PLA’s No. 181 Hospital). Investigative phone calls by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) revealed that Chen Huaizhou, the center director, admitted to using organs from Falun Gong practitioners. Donor organs are taken directly at the hospital, with short waiting times and a large volume of transplants, though the source of the donors remains unclear. The kidney transplants performed at the hospital are not sourced from Red Cross donations.
In view of the broader background of the Chinese Communist Party's state crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, since the No. 924 Hospital of the PLA’s Joint Logistics Support Force (Formerly the PLA’s No. 181 Hospital) has been involved in the crime, Chen Huaizhou, the director of the hospital's OPO (Organ Procurement Organization), is a major suspect.
Chen Huaizhou is the Director of OPO (Organ Procurement Organization) and the Director of Transplant Center of the 924th Hospital[1].
On May 23, 2007, the hospital was designated by the CCP’s Ministry of Health to carry out kidney transplantation[2]. It has an all-army kidney transplantation and dialysis treatment center and Guangzhou Military Region Organ Transplantation Center.
The All Army Kidney Transplantation and Dialysis Treatment Center was established by the Department of Nephrology of the hospital, and it is also the Institute of Kidney Diseases of Guangzhou Military Region and the Organ Transplantation Center of Guangzhou Military Region. It is the director-level branch unit of the Academic Committee of Organ Transplantation of Guangzhou Military Region and the director-level branch unit of the Organ Transplantation Branch of Guangxi Medical Association. It has the Department of Organ Transplantation, Department of Nephrology, Department of Blood Purification and Department of Basic Experimentation[3].The hospital’s All Army Kidney Transplantation and Dialysis Treatment Center has 150 beds[4], 17 surgeons, 12 technicians, including 2 doctorate supervisors, 4 master’s supervisors, 5 chief surgeons, 3 associate chief surgeons, 4 attending surgeons and 9 resident doctors.[5] They can form multiple kidney transplantation teams.
According to public internet data, the total number of kidney transplants done by the hospital's transplant team has exceeded 2,200, that of heart transplants has reached at least 70, and the liver transplants number at least 200[6]. Since 2000, the ward has taken nearly 1,000 patients for treatment per year, and the annual volume of kidney transplants has reached more than 150 cases. [7]
Telephone investigation
Summary: Chen Huaizhou, Director of the center of the Hospital, admitted that they used the organs of Falun Gong practitioners. Donor organs are now harvested at the Hospital. The wait time for organs is short, the number of transplants is large, and the sources of donors are unknown.
1. The hospital admits to using the organs of Falun Gong practitioners
Investigation Respondent: Chen Huaizhou, Director of the Organ Transplant Center of the PLA No. 181 Hospital (Guilin, Guangxi)
Investigation Date: November 16, 2018 (Phone #: 13087737632)
Investigator: “His family members hope that, they hope that the type of donor to be used is that of Falun Gong (practitioner). If it is this type of donor, he (i.e. the patient) will definitely come over very quickly.
Chen Huaizhou: Yes, yes! You come over and stay in the hospital for a checkup, have an examination, get a checkup first, to see if it can be done.
(Recording 1 download: MP3; for complete recording transcript please see: pdf Attachment 6)
2. The donor organ is now taken in the hospital
Investigation Respondent: Yang Zhijian, Surgeon with Hepatobiliary Surgery, No. 181 Hospital in Guilin[8]
Investigation Date: September 1, 2016 (Phone # :134 7135 6190)
Summary: The suspension in use of organs from death row inmates started on April 1st of this year. About 30 kidney transplants were conducted in July, and there were 15 donated livers but no available patients needing them, so they had to be sent away. The organs used to be taken in prison, but now they are taken in the hospital. The donor source is managed by the hospital. It has a set of special procedure.
(Recording 2 download: MP3; for complete transcript download please see: Attachment 42)
3. The waiting time is short.
Investigation Respondent: Chen Huaizhou, Director of Organ Transplant Center, PLA No. 181 Hospital in Guilin, Guangxi Province [9]
Investigation Date: January 18, 2017 (Phone #: +86 13087737632)
Summary: Chen Huaizhou: “You don’t have to worry about the donor. Sometimes [the organ] becomes available as soon as the patient comes. Very fast.”
(Recording 3 download:MP3; for complete recording transcript please see Attachment 43)
4. The number of transplants performed in the Hospital is large.
Investigation Respondent: Sui Weiguo, director of the Organ Transplantation Center of the PLA No. 181 Hospital in Guilin, Guangxi Province[10]
Investigation Date: January 31, 2017 (86-13907735881)
Summary: Sui Weiguo: We do more than 200 cases of kidney transplantation in a year, and about 30 to 40 cases of liver transplantation in a year. We have more than 100 organ donors every year. That is one or two [donors] every week. There are many donated organs, that is because we started [doing organ transplants] early in the country, [we are] advanced.
(Recording 4 download:MP3; for complete recording transcript please see Attachment 45)
5. The hospital claimed it had "many organ donors". However, the Red Cross Organ Donation Office in Guiling, Guangxi denied that the organs used in the hospital's surgeries were from the Red Cross.
Investigation Respondent: Yang Ming, President of the No. 181 Hospital of PLA (Guilin, Guangxi)
Investigation Date: January 21, 2017
Summary: President Yang Ming: We will take care of a donor organ for you, and the most important thing now is (for you) to come here first.... Don't worry too much about it. Investigator: How can there be so many donations?
President Yang Ming: We sure have a lot! We supply [organs to] the entire China. We do quite a lot!.”
(Recording 5 download: MP3; for complete recording transcript please see Attachment 89)[11]
Investigation Respondent: Staff on duty, Organ Donation Office of the Red Cross of Guilin, Guangxi
Investigation Date: September 12, 2016
Investigator: Were the 165 donations all made this year?
Staff on duty: That’s impossible! It was since the work on organ donations started.
Investigator: How many donations were made this year?
Staff on duty: I cannot disclose the figure to you[12].
(Recording 6 download: MP3: for complete recording transcript please see Attachment 199)
Investigation Respondent: Staff on duty, Organ Donation Office of the Red Cross Society of Guilin, Guangxi
Investigation Date: November 24, 2016
Investigator: The No. 181 Hospital did over 30 kidney transplants in July, and the organs were not from the Red Cross?
Staff on duty: They were not.[13]
(Recording 7 download: MP3; transcript download: Attachment 200)
References
[1] 梧州6岁男童不幸脑死亡 父母忍痛捐赠器官 这位小天使让三人重获新生，包括两名桂林青年
桂林日报 2023年05月30日
A 6-year-old boy in Wuzhou was unfortunately brain dead. His parents reluctantly donated his organs. This little angel gave three people a new life, including two Guilin youths. Guilin Daily May 30, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20240504234651/http://epaper.guilinlife.com…
[2] Website of National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China. The Notice of Ministry of Health on carrying out correctly the registration of clinic subjects of human organs transplantation. Annex 1: the list of the hospitals that have passed the examination of board of clinic application of human organs transplant technology of the Ministry of Health. Aug. 6, 2007.
http://www.moh.gov.cn/mohyzs/s3585/200804/18974.shtml
Link to WOIPFG Archives:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/400.png
[3] The No. 181 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) - Introduction to the PLA Renal Transplant and Dialysis Treatment Center
Retrieved from http://www.gl181.com/tese.asp?id=23
Link to WOIPFG Archives: WOIPFG Archived Link:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/841.pdf
[4] The No. 181 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) - Introduction to the PLA Renal Transplant and Dialysis Treatment Center
http://www.gl181.com/tese.asp?id=23
Link to WOIPFG Archives:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/841.pdf
[5] Overview of PLA Renal Transplant and Dialysis Treatment Center, PLA No.181 Hospital.
Retrieved from http://www.gl181.com/tese.asp?id=23
Link to WOIPFG Archives:
http://www.upholdjustice.org/upload/images/nationalcriminalreports/841…
[6] Introduction to No. 924 Hospital, zgui.com.
https://www.zgui.com/guilin/zgrmjfj181/
[7] ksk.99.com.cn: Introduction to the PLA Renal Transplant and Dialysis Treatment Center.
https://ksk.99.com.cn/ks/introduction/113468.html
[8] WOIPFG Investigative Report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Crime of Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Dafa Practitioners (III) https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/389
[9] WOIPFG Investigative Report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Crime of Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Dafa Practitioners (III) https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/389
[10]WOIPFG Investigative Report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Crime of Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Dafa Practitioners (III)
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/389
[11]WOIPFG Investigative Report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Crime of Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Dafa Practitioners (III)
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/389
[12]WOIPFG Investigative Report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Crime of Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Dafa Practitioners (III)
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/389
[13]WOIPFG Investigative Report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Ongoing Crime of Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Dafa Practitioners (III)
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/389
