WOIPFG’s Investigative Report on the Alleged Organ Harvesting of Living Falun Gong Practitioners at the Fifth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital (Formerly the PLA No. 302 Hospital) and Its Staff Members Suspected of Participation

Jun 2,2023

The 302nd Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), is the only military and the largest tertiary level A infectious disease hospital in China. [1] In May 2007, the hospital was designated by the Ministry of Health to carry out liver transplants. [2] It assisted thirty-four hospitals in Beijing and seventeen provinces and cities nationwide to carry out liver transplants[3] and promoted the routine clinical development of liver transplants throughout China. Given the general background of the Chinese Communist Party's state crime of live organ harvesting, Given the general background of the Chinese Communist Party's state crime of live organ harvesting, The hospital is under suspicion of participating in the crime of live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other groups.

I. Hospital Overview

The 302nd Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the only military and the largest tertiary level A infectious disease hospital in China. [4] On May 23, 2007, the hospital was designated by the Ministry of Health to carry out liver transplantation.[5]

II. The Liver Transplant Center has a large scale with hardware facilities to perform hundreds of transplants annually.

The Second Center of Hepatobiliary Surgery/Liver Transplantation Research Center of the 302nd Hospital of the PLA consists of two clinical departments of transplantation surgery and transplantation medicine, and one basic research laboratory, with the main focus on in situ liver transplantation for end-stage liver disease, adjuvant liver transplantation, living-donor liver transplantation, split liver transplantation, liver cell transplantation, pre- and post-transplantation medical treatment and follow-up, standardized treatment of patients with recurrent primary disease after transplantation, and the diagnosis, treatment and research on precision hepatectomy and minimally invasive radiofrequency for liver tumors. There are 50 beds in the transplantation surgery department and 45 beds in the transplantation medicine department, with specialist outpatient clinic, 29 consultation room surgery clinic, 27 consultation room internal medicine clinic, etc. [6]

Based on the number of ward beds, if there are 50 beds for liver transplants a year (the Transplant Surgery Department has 50 beds), and if the bed turnover rate is 100% (the average bed occupancy rate in the national Grade-A Tertiary Hospitals is as high as 103%[7]), and if the hospitalization time for liver transplant is 30 days, the hospital has the potential to perform more than 608 (50×365×100%/30=608) cases of liver transplants per year. (Calculation method: number of ward beds X number of days in a year X bed turnover rate/average hospitalization time for liver transplant = number of liver transplants performed per year)

Figure 1 Snapshot of PLA 302 Hospital

III. The quantity and quality of the Liver Transplant Center rank among the top ten in the country, training other hospitals across the country to carry out liver transplants.

In 2005, the Liver Transplantation Center was established at the PLA No. 302 Hospital. For more than a decade, this center has played a significant role in the clinical and scientific research of liver transplantation throughout China, while for nearly six years, the Liver Transplantation Center of the PLA No. 302 Hospital has assisted in the development of liver transplantation in many hospitals in Beijing and in various provinces and cities throughout China.[8] In 2010, this transplantation center was ranked seventh in quality and ninth in quantity of data from liver transplantation centers in China.[9]

IV. The hospital has a strong team of liver transplant doctors

The Hepatobiliary Surgery II Center/Liver Transplantation Research Center of the PLA No. 302 Hospital has two chief surgeons, five associate chief surgeons, six attending surgeons[10]，and 22 surgeons, 40% of whom have medical doctorates and 50% are medical masters.[11] Liu Zhenwen, director of the Hepatobiliary Surgery Department of the 302 Hospital, was reassigned here in 2005, and he has independently completed more than 1,000 liver transplants, assisting Beijing and thirty-four hospitals in seventeen provinces and cities across China in liver transplantation.[12]

V. Telephone investigation shows that the wait time for organs is short and the liver transplants volume is large.

1. Short Wait Time for Organs

Investigation subject: the PLA No. 302 Hospital Liver Transplant Duty Doctor[13]
Investigation time: 2017-05-05 (+86+ 10_66933449)
The wait time for liver source is one or two weeks the fastest, and one or two months the slowest. We did over a hundred surgeries last year. We have surgeries every month anyway, we’ve been doing it all the time.
(Download Recording 1 MP3, please see Addendum 13)

2. Large Liver Transplants Volume

So how about the actual transplantation, let us see WOIPFG investigators' phone records

In 2016, Ma Xiao, the organ coordinator of the Beijing 302 Hospital of the PLA, told investigators that Liu Zhenwen, who previously operated on Fu Biao, is very famous. He was specially hired from the Beijing General Hospital of the Armed Police Force and has been an expert in the 302 Hospital for many years. In the transplant circle, he is a "big boss, very powerful!"

(Recording 2. Download MP3, text download: pdf 2)

"We are still doing it now; we do a lot of them"

Investigation subject: the PLA No. 302 Hospital Liver Failure Diagnosis and Research Center (+86+13671113329)

Investigation time: 2016-04-06:

Doctor on duty Liu Hongling: “We are still doing it now, we do a lot of them. We have wards especially for the military, we can do it, and the medical treatment can be free”[14]…

(Recording 3. Download MP3, text download: pdf 3)

“We have been doing many recently, seven surgeries a week.”
Investigation subject: the PLA No. 302 Hospital Liver Transplant Nurse (+86+ 1066933449) [15]
Investigation time: 2017-09-15
Nurse: Wait two to three months before it can be done. We have been doing many recently, seven surgeries a week.
(Recording 4 download MP3; please see pdf 4 for the full transcript)

“This year there will be more done than last year.”

Investigation subject: the PLA No. 302 Hospital liver transplant doctor Wang

Investigation time: 2017-09-15
Last year almost 150 transplants were done, this year there will be more done than last year.

(Recording 5 download MP3; please see pdf 5 for the full transcript)

Ⅵ. List of persons primarily responsible

JFJZ-DW001 Liu Zhenwen, male.

Profile: Director of the Second Center of Hepatobiliary Surgery/Liver Transplantation Research Center of the PLA No. 302 Hospital, chief surgeon, currently a member of the Beijing Organ Transplantation Professional Committee and a member of the PLA Organ Transplantation Professional Committee.
In 1989, he started to work in the general surgery department of the First Central Hospital of Tianjin, and was able to perform all kinds of general surgery independently. In 1998, he started to specialize in liver transplantation, and in 2001, he became the deputy director of Tianjin Organ Transplantation Center, and in 2002, he was transferred to the General Hospital of the Armed Police, where he established the Liver Transplantation Center of the General Hospital of the Armed Police and served as the director of the Center. In 2005, he was transferred to become the director of the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery at the PLA No. 302 Hospital and established the Liver Transplantation Center.
He has extensive experience in the perioperative treatment of liver transplantation and has independently performed more than 1,000 liver transplants and assisted 34 hospitals in Beijing and 17 provinces and cities across China in liver transplantation. He has devoted himself to the clinical and scientific research of liver transplantation in China for more than ten years, and has assisted in the development of liver transplantation in many hospitals in Beijing and various provinces and cities in China in the past six years.[16]

JFJZ-DW002 Wang Hongbo, male.
Profile: Deputy Chief Surgeon, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the PLA No. 302 Hospital. Deputy Director of Surgery, Liver Transplantation Research Center. He is now a young member of the PLA Organ Transplantation Professional Committee.
He graduated from the Medical Department of the Third Military Medical University in 1997 and is engaged in clinical work and related research in hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation.

He specializes in liver transplantation for end-stage liver disease.[17]

JFJZ-DW003 Sun Baijun, male.
Profile: Chief Surgeon and Professor of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the PLA No. 302 Hospital. Former Deputy Director of Liver Transplantation Research Center/Liver Tumor Surgery Treatment Center and Director of Transplantation Surgery.[18]
He specializes in liver transplantation.

FJZ-DW004 Hong-Yu He, male.
Profile: Deputy Chief Surgeon of Ophthalmology, PLA 302 Hospital
He specializes in lamellar corneal transplantation.[19]

JFJZ-DW005 Rui Jing'an, male, DOB: January 1936. Origin: Jiangsu Province.[20]
Profile: Chief Surgeon, Hepatobiliary Surgery Department, the PLA No. 302 Hospital. Distinguished Expert and Professor, Liver Transplantation Research Center, PLA 302 Hospital.[21]

January 1982 - February 1983: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Surgery, Johns Hopkins University Hospital, USA,.
1983-1992: Institute of Oncology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Attending Surgeon, Deputy Chief Surgeon and Deputy Director of Surgery, Master's Degree Supervisor, China Union Medical University.
1992: Chief Surgeon, Professor, Director and Vice President of Liver Cancer Institute, General Hospital of Posts and Telecommunications - Beijing Medical University 8th Clinical Medical College (now the Western Hospital of Peking Union Medical College).

He specializes in liver transplantation techniques.[22]

JFJZ-DW006 Zhang Shaogeng, male.

Profile: Professor and Chief Surgeon, Director of Hepatobiliary Surgery Center I, Hepatobiliary Surgery Center, the PLA No. 302 Hospital.
He graduated from the First and Second Military Medical Universities, and studied under the famous hepatobiliary surgery expert, academician Wu Mengchao.
He specializes in liver transplantation.[23]

Reference：

[1]Baidu Encyclopedia: The 302 Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army of China

http://baike.baidu.com/view/2127005.htm?fromtitle=%E8%A7%A3%E6%94%BE%E5%86%9B302%E5%8C%BB%E9%99%A2&fromid=788474&type=syn

Link to WOIPFG files:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06270…

[2]Website of the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China, August 06, 2007: "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Health on the Registration of Human Organ Transplantation Treatment Subjects" Annex: 1. List of the first batch of hospitals that passed the audit of the Clinical Application Committee of Human Organ Transplant Technology of the Ministry of Health”

http://www.moh.gov.cn/mohyzs/s3585/200804/18974.shtml

Link to WOIPFG files:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/400.png

[3]Liu Zhenwen, PLA 302 Hospital

http://www.302hospital.com/Doctors/Main?siteId=794

Link to WOIPFG files:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06270…

[4]Baidu Encyclopedia: The 302 Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army of China

http://baike.baidu.com/view/2127005.htm?fromtitle=%E8%A7%A3%E6%94%BE%E5%86%9B302%E5%8C%BB%E9%99%A2&fromid=788474&type=syn

Link to WOIPFG files:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06270…

[5]Website of the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China, August 06, 2007: "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Health on the Registration of Human Organ Transplantation Treatment Subjects" Annex: 1. List of the first batch of hospitals that passed the audit of the Clinical Application Committee of Human Organ Transplant Technology of the Ministry of Health”

http://www.moh.gov.cn/mohyzs/s3585/200804/18974.shtml

Link to WOIPFG files:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/400.png

[6]Hepatobiliary Surgery Center II, PLA 302 Hospital

http://www.302hospital.com/Html/Departments/Main/Detail_9.html?siteId=152

Link to WOIPFG files:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_062705.png

[7]China Association of Non-public Medical Institutions: China's Public Hospitals Have Huge Potential for Reform, by Liu Guoen, 2014-12-27

WOIPFG archived link:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/496.png

[8]Liver Disease Recovery Garden: Liu Zhenwen

http://www.jk300.com/liuzhengwen.htm