Investigation Leads: Suspected Live Organ Bank Located Near Shijiazhuang City, China

The Falun Dafa Association and the Minghui/Clearwisdom website formed the "Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China" (CIPFG) on April 4th, 2006. The coalition collects evidence of the persecution and leads pointing to the existence of mass-scale organ harvesting. The following is recent information that the coalition has obtained. It's our hope that once more people of justice hear this news, they will step forward and expose the labor camps, prisons and hospitals throughout China that have participated in the systematic persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners, and help us end the persecution.

On July 6th, members of the Canadian independent investigation team: former Secretary of State for the Asia-Pacific Region and Member of Parliament David Kilgour, and renowned International Human Rights Lawyer David Matas published a report to be shared with the world that supports Falun Gong practitioners' allegations of live organ harvesting. The report suggests that around 41,500 organs were harvested and transplanted from Falun Gong practitioners killed by Chinese Communist Party authorities over the last several years.

We can deduce from a report published by the Shijian City No.1 Hospital, dated August 1st, 2006, there most likely exists, about an hour's drive from this hospital, a live organ bank where Falun Gong practitioners are held until they are murdered for their organs. It is probably located in a suburban area or a county. There are operating facilities, and it is presumed to be a hospital, a military hospital, an army hospital or police hospital. However it could also be a facility which was originally an underground air raid shelter. We urge Falun Dafa practitioners from Shijiazhuang and its neighboring counties and cities to investigate thoroughly.

A report was published in its newspaper "for internal use only" by Shijiazhuang City No.1 Hospital, dated August 1st, 2006, Issue 51, "Performed 5 Kidney Transplants within 10 Hours." In this report, it discusses in detail the process of five kidney transplants which all were performed on July 17th. The report began with the medical staff going to collect the kidneys from an out-of-town location. When they returned to the hospital they performed the kidney transplants.

At 8:10 a.m., "Vice President [of the hospital] Mr. Zheng Zhimin arranged for medical staff members from the No.3 Surgery Department, Urology Surgery Department, Anesthesia Department and Operating Room to collect some kidneys, again from a location outside of the town. Around noon, they returned with the kidneys. Immediately after the long and exhausting trip, the anesthetists and nurses prepared for the transplant operations."

"The first kidney transplant began at 2:45 p.m. Mr. Pang Shujian, chairman of the Urology Surgery Department performed the surgery. The patient was a 49-year-old uremia patient."

"After nearly 10 hours of continuous surgery, the last kidney transplant was performed."

"Since the first kidney transplant in June of 2002, our hospital performed close to 70 kidney transplants. Four of the kidneys came from patients' family members. The were no complications from the kidney transplants."

We want to note some rather suspicious points in this report:

Not Revealing the Identity of the Organ Donors

The report discussed in great detail the doctor who was in charge of the operations, and how skillful and how responsible the medical staff was. However, it didn't provide any information with regards to the donors. The actions of donors are great and selfless and so they deserve praise. However, they were ignored in the report. Therefore, let's ask ourselves, what is this report trying to hide?

Let's take another look at a new publication on the Shijiazhuang City No.1 People's Hospital website, "A Sixty-Year-Old Mother Donates a Kidney to Save Her Son". This article first described the selfless spirit of a mother, a farmer from Shijiacun Village in Wuji County, who donated her kidney to her son. Then followed the detailed description of the operation. If that's the case, then the five donors in the July 17th report aren't great and selfless? We wonder why they were not mentioned at all? The People's Hospital has completed at least 70 operations, and of these only four organs came from family members. Where did the other 66 kidneys come from?

Confusing Information on the Site of the Operations

At first, they described in "A Sixty-Year-Old Mother Donates a Kidney to Save Her Son," the selfless deed of a mother.

"At 9:15 a.m., on March 25th, Wang Lihong and his mother were taken into the operating room at the same time." They were placed on operating tables only 3 meters apart. They could encourage each other by looking at each other. "Anesthesia, sterilization and preparation for the operation was going on. At 10:05 a.m., the kidney transplant officially started. Medial staff took out the left kidney from the mother who was the donor. They closed the incision at 12:10 a.m.. She was taken from the operating room after a successful organ removal."

From the above-mentioned process, we can see that the donor of the organ and the organ recipient, are required to be in close proximity. Therefore, the best scenario is for them to be in the same hospital, and that the operations closely follow each other. The organ is outside a body for only a short time, and there is a high chance of success. This is also convenient for the medical staff. So, on July 17th, some medical staff had to "travel a long distance" and go "out of town" to pick up five organs instead of having the donors organs removed at the People's Hospital. Why? Were the donors willing candidates for the surgery?

Operating Time for Picking up Five Organs is Confusing

From the aforementioned description, we came to understand that even at a hospital like Shijiazhuang City No.1 People' Hospital, with its technologically advanced facility and being a third Level Grade A Hospital, the entire organ removal and implanting process, "taking the kidney from a live person who is willing to donate his/her kidney," took from 9:15 a.m. To 12:10 p.m., 2 hours and 55 minutes in total. The operating process included: anesthesia, sterilization, pre-op preparation, removing the kidney and closing the incision. The surgeon has to treat each step during the operation very carefully, because the donor of the organ became the patient after the operation. This person also needs special treatment and care.

Now, let's look at the source of the five organs: "The Deputy President of the Hospital organized some medical staff from the No.3 Surgery Department, Urological Department, Anesthesia Room and Operation Department to pick up kidneys from out-of-town." Even the anesthetists were among those to pick up the kidneys. Logically, this means that there must be somewhere a lot of live donors. Everything needs to be prepared beforehand, including the matching of blood types. Then, the kidneys have to be removed on site. Even the operating room for organ removal must be prepared. Such operating preparation has to be done at least once, yet there were five kidneys harvested. A person has only two kidneys, so least three operations needed to be performed. If they are donated organs, then one person can only donate one kidney, which means that there are five operations.

July 17th was a Monday. The traffic is bad on Mondays. These folks set out at 8:10 a.m., and returned at noon, both peak rush hours. It was called "traveling a long distance." When taking traffic jams into consideration, it was least over an hour drive one way, and a couple of hours both ways. So what's left for performing the kidney operations done was only a couple of hours at the most. According to normal operating procedures this is not enough time! Even for completing one kidney transplant, it is not enough time.

Then there is only one explanation possible: They didn't follow operating procedures, but only cared about the quality of the kidneys. Harvested kidneys do not require one to "connect the kidney vein, kidney artery and ureter." They didn't care about whether donors were still alive.

Hebei Medical University Affiliated People's Hospital, Shijiazhuang City No.1 People's Hospital

Address: 36 Fanxi Road in Changan District, Shijiazhuang City
Telephone: 86-311-86919000, 86-311-86910027
Area Code: 050011
Website: WWW.SJZSDYYY.COM
Email: [email protected]
People and Departments for Participating into Organ Transplant
Urology Surgery Department: 86-311-86919000, 86-311-86910060, 86-311-86919431
Email: [email protected]
Department Head of Urology Surgery Department Yu Shenru
Organ Transplant Center Specialist
Deputy President Zhang Zhimin: 86-13323119568
Organ Transplant Center person in charge Pang Shijian: 86-13323119543
Organ Transplant Center person in charge Zhang Guoshuan: 86-13363882205
Northern China Organ Transplant Research Institute person in charge, Liver transplant specialist Li Yonghui: 86-133831115583