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WOIPFG's Investigative Report on the Alleged Organ Harvesting of Living Falun Gong Practitioners by Feng Guiwen, Director of the Renal Transplantation Department of Zhengzhou University-affiliated First Hospital
Apr 3, 2025

Summary

Feng Guiwen, male, director of the Renal Transplantation Department of Zhengzhou University-affiliated First Hospital, associate chief surgeon. He has performed more than 1,000 kidney transplants. The hospital's organ transplant center is a key department. The number of liver and kidney transplants performed by the transplant center ranks among the top domestic hospitals, among which the number of pediatric kidney transplants has ranked first among domestic hospitals for four consecutive years. The number of kidney transplants has ranked first in Henan Province for many years. The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University is also the organ transplant center of Henan Province. In 2017, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University ranked third among hospitals nationwide in terms of liver transplantation, fourth among hospitals nationwide in terms of kidney transplantation, and first in the country for pediatric kidney transplantation for four consecutive years. In 2003, the Renal Transplantation Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University was established. Under the leadership of Feng Guiwen, the number of kidney transplants in this field led the country. The department has 47 open beds and 10 intensive care beds. According to incomplete data, the total number of kidney transplants in 2021 was 538, ranking third in the country. Telephone investigations revealed a large number of kidney transplants and a shortage of beds.

In view of the broader background of the Chinese Communist Party's state crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, and Zhengzhou University-affiliated First Hospital’s involvement, Feng Guiwen, the director of the hospital's Renal Transplantation Department, is a major suspect.

Feng Guiwen, Male. Associate Chief Surgeon at Zhengzhou University-affiliated First Hospital, Professor, and Director of Kidney Transplantation. Deputy director level member of the Organ Transplantation Branch of Henan Medical Association and the editorial board member of “Organ Transplantation” Journal.

Graduated and received a master's degree in urology from Zhengzhou University in 2002 and a doctoral degree in kidney transplantation from Southern Medical University in 2005. 

Worked and studied at the Organ Transplantation Center of Oslo University Hospital in Norway as a visiting scholar in 2011.

He has been engaged in urology, kidney transplantation and blood purification for more than 25 years, and has performed more than 1000 cases of kidney transplantation and more than 30 cases of DCD kidney transplantation for children.   He specializes in liver transplantation as well as combined pancreas-kidney transplantation and routine kidney transplantation and clinical kidney transplant HLA matching[1].

The Organ Transplant Center of the hospital is an advantageous key department. The number of liver and kidney transplants in the transplant center ranks among the top hospitals in China, among which the number of pediatric kidney transplant cases ranks the Number 1 among domestic hospitals for four consecutive years. The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University is also the organ transplant center of Henan Province[2]. In 2017, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University ranked third in the country in terms of liver transplantation, fourth in kidney transplantation, and children's kidney transplantation ranked first in the country for 4 consecutive years[3].

The department includes specialized outpatient clinic, inpatient department with tissue matching laboratory and hemodialysis center. The number of kidney transplants has been the first in Henan Province for many years. In 2015 it completed 230 cases of kidney transplantation, which ranked the fifth in China.

The department has a team of more than 40 staff members of transplant surgeons, nurses, examiners and organ donation coordinators, including 7 surgeons, 2 professors, 2 associate professors and 2 postgraduate instructors. There are 47 open beds and 10 monitoring beds in the department[4]. In 2003 the Kidney Transplantation Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University was established, becoming one of the first medical institutions that carry out kidney transplants in China since 1978.

The children’s kidney transplantation in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University ranks first in the country for many years in a row. In 2021, the Kidney Transplant Center completed 109 cases of children's kidney transplantation, making it the first children's kidney transplant center that completed more than 100 kidney transplants in a single year[5]. The total number of its kidney transplants reached 538, ranking the third in China.[6]
 

Telephone Investigation on Kidney Transplantation in the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan Province Zhengzhou University

Investigative Respondent: Doctor on duty at Kidney Transplant,  the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Province[7]

Investigation Date: May 9, 2017 (+86+ 371_66862191)             

Summary:

  1. “We did more than 300 cases of kidney transplantation last year.”
  2. “We have already done more than 100 cases this year.”

(Recording 1 download: MP3; transcript download: Attachment 48 )

Investigative Respondent: Doctor on duty at Kidney Transplant,  the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Province[8]

Investigation Date: June 28, 2017 (+86+ 371_66862192)             

Summary:

“Our hospital has more kidney sources than other hospitals.”

“From the beginning of this year till now, we should’ve done 200 to 300 cases [of kidney transplantation].”

“Last year we did more than 300 cases [of kidney transplantation].”  

(Recording 2 download: MP3; transcript download: Attachment 49)

Investigation Respondent: Nurse with patients ward,  department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University[9]

Investigation Date: May 3, 2018 (Phone #: +86-37166862191)

Summary: Nearly 400 kidney transplants were done last year.  There will be four kidney transplant operations tonight.

(Recording 3 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf attachment)

Investigation Respondent: Doctor with Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan[10]
Investigation Date: June 11, 2019 (Phone #: +86-371-66862192)

Summary: Generally, about four hundred cases a year.

(Recording 4 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf056)

Investigation Respondent: Nurse with patients ward,  Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University[11]
Investigation Date: November 6, 2019 (Phone #: +86-371-66862191)

Summary: We have a shortage of beds. Any of our doctors can do it well.

Investigator: Can you do two or three hundred cases a year?

Nurse: Ah, definitely more than that! Our hospital did the most in Henan.

(Recording 5 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf144)

Investigation Respondent: Dr. Wang Zhigang, Kidney Transplant, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University

Investigation Date: January 21, 2021

Summary: Just come to the hospital and do a nucleic acid test, and the transplant surgery is affected by the pandemic. There are no beds now. Each year, 400 surgeries are done, 300 to 400 of them.[12]

 

References

[1]    Website, haodf.com (Good Doctors Online), Profile of Dr. Feng Guiwen.

http://www.haodf.com/doctor/DE4r0eJWGqZNZMGWhILjI1o55twNygxV.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20180110062043/http://www.haodf.com/doctor/…

[2]    Website of “The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University”, Hospital Overview.

http://fcc.zzu.edu.cn/s_lan1.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20200222120822/http://fcc.zzu.edu.cn/s_lan1…

[3]    The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in Henan: So called the largest hospital in the universe, why is it still difficult to see a doctor?

https://archive.vn/6C9p3

[4]    Website of “The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University”, Profile of Kidney Transplant Center

http://fcc.zzu.edu.cn/newsss/vmsgisapi.dll/vonefun?fun=3a_s&id=8235

http://web.archive.org/web/20200928135517/http://fcc.zzu.edu.cn/newsss/…

[5]    Website thepaper.cn "Innovation and Leading|Children's Kidney Transplantation in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University Ranks No. 1 in the Country for Many Years in a row.”

https://archive.vn/nntn5

[6] 《河南日报》头版报道:创新引领 郑大一附院儿童肾移植连续多年位居全国第一

发表时间:2022-02-17    点击:658

2022年1月30日 河南日报 第1版

https://archive.is/5k6WY

[7]    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

[8]    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

[9]WOIPFG. “WOIPFG’s Investigation Report on Status Quo of the CCP’s Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Dafa Practitioners (V).” July 20, 2018.
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/96870

[10]   WOIPFG. “WOIPFG’s Investigation 2019 Report on Status Quo of the CCP’s Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Dafa Practitioners.” March 1st, 2020.

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/125981

[11]   WOIPFG. “WOIPFG’s Investigation 2019 Report on Status Quo of the CCP’s Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Dafa Practitioners.” March 1st, 2020.

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/125981

[12]  《2020至2022年追查国际 对中共活摘法轮功学员器官现状调查综述》2023年10月3日

https://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/140499