Qu Qingshan
Summary
Qu Qingshan, male. Director of the Organ Transplant Center at Zhengzhou City People's Hospital, Chief Surgeon. He has performed over 1,000 allogeneic kidney transplants. The hospital's Nephrology and Organ Transplant Department was established in June 2002 and has three separate units: the Nephrology Ward, the Organ Transplant Ward, and the Hemodialysis Ward. From 2006 to 2008, the hospital ranked second nationally in kidney transplants for three consecutive years. Phone investigation revealed that Qu Qingshan and other doctors admitted to using organs from Falun Gong practitioners and continued such use. There is a large supply of donors, with a short waiting time, sometimes as fast as 2-3 days, and young and healthy donors are available. The hospital has a large number of transplants, high bed turnover rates, and even added beds.
In view of the broader background of the Chinese Communist Party's state crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, since Zhengzhou People's Hospital has been involved in the crime, Qu Qingshan, the director of the hospital's Organ Transplant Center, is a major suspect.
Qu Qingshan male. Director of the Organ Transplant Department of Zhengzhou City People’s Hospital, chief surgeon. Deputy director level member of Henan Provincial Blood Purification Management Professional Committee, deputy director level member of Henan Provincial Organ Transplant Professional Committee.
Graduated from Henan Medical University. Has been engaged in urology kidney transplantation and liver transplantation. Carried out the first living donor kidney transplantation and combined liver-kidney transplantation in Henan province.
Performed more than 1,000 cases of allogeneic kidney transplantation and 150 cases of living donor kidney transplantation. More than 10 liver transplants have been successfully carried out in the past three years[1].
On Dec. 27, 2007, Qu Qingshan, the director of the Nephrology and Organ Transplantation Center, and his team completed 13 kidney transplant surgeries within 21 hours[2]. According to an article on "Chinese Etiquette Training Network" issued on April, 2010, “Around the Chinese New Year, Doctor Xing Li of Kidney Transplant Center had been working very hard for consecutive days. He had to do the operation from 2 or 3 AM until next morning. His right eye suffered from conjunctivitis as a result. Since he had to do operations every night, he had to ask his assistants to help cleaning. [3]”
The hospital’s Kidney Transplant Department was established in June 2002, having three separate wards: a kidney disease ward, an organ transplantation ward and a blood purification ward. They now became a unique specialty unit in Henan Province, a major discipline Henan Province and a Key Laboratory of Kidney Transplantation of Zhengzhou City. The department ranked 2nd on kidney transplantation in China from 2006 to 2008[4].
Zhengzhou City People's Hospital has a special building for transplant center treating transplant patients[5]. In December 2022, according to multiple sources, the new organ transplant building of Zhengzhou City People's Hospital is to be open soon[6].
Telephone investigation showed there is a large supply of donors, with a short waiting time, sometimes as fast as 2-3 days, and young and healthy donors are available.
1. There are young and healthy organ donors available.
Investigation Respondent: Chen Yongfeng, doctor of Zhengzhou People's Hospital
Investigation Date: June 26, 2015
Summary
Our hospital is the best in Henan in liver transplants. We just did a few today, two liver transplants; “The donors is from our local. There are no problems in terms of quality; if you want to do it and have plenty of time, we can choose a good, younger liver. We have plenty of donors, so you can also choose the young and good ones, but I cannot promise you that in the future.”
(Recording 1 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf 45) [7].
2. Waiting time is short
Investigation Date: Doctor on Duty with Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhengzhou People's Hospital
Investigation Date: June 25, 2015 (8637163933151)
Summary
The doctor on duty with Hepatobiliary Surgery said: “Waiting for donors generally takes as fast as 3-2 days, or as slow as about 10 days. The cost is about 500,000 RMB Yuan. We have a lot of donors.” When asked about the reason for a fast wait time for a donor, and where the donors are form, the doctor replied: "This thing... um... No comment, no comment, don't ask, don't ask these things. You can come any day, go directly to our ward, usually one or two (operations) can be done for sure. "
(Recording 2 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf 7) [8].
Investigation Respondent: Chen Jianbin, Surgeon with Liver Transplant at Zhengzhou City People’s Hospital.
Investigation Date: September 25, 2015.
Summary:
When responding to a telephone investigation from WOIPFG, the doctor was explicit that the waiting time for liver transplantation can be as quick as 2-3 days, and liver transplantation can be done in ten days or half a month at the longest.
(Recording 3 download: MP3; transcript details, see: Attachment 11) [9]
Investigation Respondent: Doctor at the Office of Doctors, Liver Transplantation Department of Zhengzhou City People's Hospital[10]
Investigation Date: February 26, 2019
Summary:
The doctor stated clearly during the telephone investigation that the wait time for (a liver transplant) should be within one month.
(Recording 4 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf 008)
Investigation Respondent: Nurse with patients ward at Kidney Transplantation Department of Zhengzhou People’s Hospital[11]
Investigation Date: April 17, 2019
Summary:
In response to an inquiry from a WOIPFG investigator, she replied that more than 200 cases can be performed a year, some were done within just a few days of waiting, and there were also those having to wait for three to four months, or five to six months.
(Recording 5 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf 043)
3. The doctors of the hospital admitted to using Falun Gong practitioners’ organs and continued such use.
Investigation Respondent: Miao Shuzhai, Chief Surgeon of the Organ Transplantation Center of Zhengzhou People's Hospital[12]
Investigation Date: November 6, 2018 (13938277351)
Summary
Miao Shuzhai: "(Arranging a liver transplant) generally takes anywhere from one or two weeks, to one month"
Investigator: About the donors you are currently using, your donors are those from Falun Gong, the normal type, is that right?
Miao Shuzhai: Right, right, correct!
(Recording 6 play and download: MP3; for the complete recording record, please see pdf Attachment 3)
(The live video (4) of the WOIPFG’s investigation on CCP’s live organ harvesting) [13]
Investigation Respondent: Qu Qingshan, director of the Organ Transplantation Center of Zhengzhou People’s Hospital
Investigation Date: November 06, 2018 (13703717386)
Summary
Investigator: Another question is about your donors. The donors you are using now are still from Falun Gong (practitioners), the healthy donors, aren't you?
Qu Qingshan: Ah, all of them, all of them are healthy.
(Recording 7 play and download: MP3, for the complete recording record, please see pdf Attachment 17)
4. WOIPFG telephone investigation showed that the hospital has a large number of transplants, a high turnover rate of beds and additional beds.
Investigation Respondent: Wang Bing, liver surgeon, Zhengzhou City People's Hospital
Investigation Date: June 28, 2015, (+86-15038199893)
Summary
In a telephone investigation conducted by a WOIPFG investigator, the doctor said:
You will get a liver donor in the second day; When we did well in the past, the number of transplants ranked second in the country; In the resent few years, the number of transplants was still ranked in the top 5 in the country. Two cases this week and three last week; everybody knows that we do a good job, and the donor jobs have never let up. We have network across the country, very solid connections; our hospital does a lot every year. To be honest, our hospital does not rank well in the country, but we did exceptionally well in organ transplantation! Very strong job.
(Recording 8 download: MP3; for transcript details, please see: Attachment 7) [14]
Investigation Respondent: Department of Organ Transplantation, Zhengzhou City People's Hospital, Henan
Investigation Date: October 18, 2017 (+86 + 37167077512)
Summary
The respondent replied during the investigation: There are 60 beds and 67 patients have been accommodated, all of whom are transplant patients. If there are donors, several transplants can be done in one day. (Investigation date: October 18, 2017)...... [15]
(Recording 9 playback and download: MP3; for complete recording record, please see the pdf attachment)
Investigation Respondent: The Office of Doctors, Transplantation Department, Zhengzhou City People's Hospital
Investigation Date: October 23, 2017 (+86+37167077339)
Summary
A Doctor Li told WOIPFG investigator: Generally more than 200 or about 300 (transplants) were done in one year. Donor fees are usually 150,000 to 160,000 RMB Yuan. ……[16]
(Recording 10 playback and download: MP3; for complete recording record, please see pdf attachment)
Investigation Respondent: Nurse with the Office of Nurses, the Transplantation Department, Zhengzhou City People's Hospital
Investigation Date: January 11, 2018 (+8637167077512)
Summary
In her reply to WOIPFG’s investigation, the nurse said: In 2017, no more thaan 200 kidney transplants were done, not as many as those done before. The liver and kidney patients are in one ward, which has more than 70 beds, including 100 extra beds;
The investigator asked: Do you have a full schedule of work every month?
The nurse answered: Yes, yes! (Investigation Date: January 11, 2018)…… [17]
(Recording 11 playback and download: MP3; for complete recording record, please see pdf attachment)
Investigation Respondent: Nurse with Organ Transplantation Department, Zhengzhou People's Hospital
Investigation Date: April 10, 2018 (+8637167077512)
Summary
Nurse: Last year there were more than 200 kidney transplants, and 60 to 70 of them should be liver transplants. We have fewer liver transplant wards and more kidney transplant wards. So, the bed vacancies are tight. We have more than 70 beds here for the whole department for post transplant patients. (Investigation Date: April 10, 2018)…… [18]
(Recording 12 playback and download: MP3; for complete recording record, please see pdf attachment)
Investigation Respondent: Doctor with transplant clinic, Zhengzhou City People's Hospital
Investigation Date: January 11, 2018
Summary
Doctor: Last year, 167 cases of kidney transplantation and 35 cases of liver transplantation were done, for a total of more than 200 cases. We did the most the year before last year, with more than 200 cases done. There’s still a shortage of beds, we have to use hallways. We have more than 200 beds, and that’s not a small number, right? For 50 beds, there were 70 to 80 inpatients. The Brain Death Center is jointly managed by the Henan Provincial Red Cross Society and the Henan Provincial Department of Health; (As to the question about) the number of donors, this is mainly (handled) up to the hospitals, and each hospital has its own way of getting them. (Investigation Date: January 11, 2018)…… [19]
(Recording 13 playback and download: MP3; for complete recording record, please see pdf attachment)
Investigation Respondent: Nurse with kidney transplant clinic, Zhengzhou City People's Hospital[20]
Investigation Date: March 4, 2019
Summary
Nurse: Recently, more kidney transplants have been done. The turnover rate of patients is relatively fast, and there are no beds for the time being. When you come, we might need to add a bed.
We do about 200 cases a year.
(Recording 14 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf 011)
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