Chen Litian
Summary: Chen Litian, male, is the Director of the Transplant Surgery Department and Chief Surgeon at Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. From January 2004 to August 2008, he participated in 1,600 liver extractions. Xinhua Hospital is one of the first medical institutions in China to obtain qualifications for liver organ transplants. A WOIPFG telephone investigation revealed a high number of transplants, abundant liver sources, short waiting times, multiple teams, and the use of organs from Falun Gong practitioners.
In view of the broader background of the Chinese Communist Party's state crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, since Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine has been allegedly involved in the crime, Chen Litian, the director of the hospital's Transplant Surgery Department, is a major suspect.
Chen Litian, male, is the Director of the Transplant Surgery Department, Chief Surgeon, and Associate Professor at Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. He is also a member of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Medical Association. He has long been engaged in the clinical practice, teaching, and research of liver transplantation[1]. From January 2004 to August 2008, he participated in 1,600 liver extractions[2]. From January 1999 to February 2005, he participated in over 1,500 liver transplants at the Oriental Organ Transplant Center of the First Central Hospital of Tianjin[3].
Xinhua Hospital is one of the first medical institutions in China to obtain qualifications for performing liver organ transplants. It has conducted various types of liver transplant surgeries, including orthotopic non-shunted liver transplantation, piggyback liver transplantation, pediatric living-donor liver transplantation, and reduced-size liver transplantation. Currently, adult liver transplantation, pediatric living-donor liver transplantation, reduced-size liver transplantation, and split liver transplantation have become routine procedures[4].
Telephone investigation: High number of transplants, abundant liver sources, short waiting times, multiple teams, and the use of organs from Falun Gong practitioners.
Investigation Respondent: Director Chen Litian, Director of Liver Transplant, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Investigation Date: July 25, 2019 （Tel: +86-13916915799）
Summary: I have done surgeries for many patients.
(Recording 1 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf 072)
Investigation Respondent: Chen Litian, Director of Liver Transplant, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Investigation Date: July 25, 2019 （Tel: +86-13916915799）
Summary:
1. We have the things (liver sources) for sure. But you have to come over first!
2. Investigator: “Can the surgery be done within one week?”
Director Chen Litian: “For sure it can be done!”
3. Investigator: “We want good quality liver source, and we can pay a bit more for it.”
Director Chen Litian: “Ah, sure!”
4. Investigator: “My former classmate told me to ask for an organ from a Falun Gong practitioner, like the one he used previously. Can it be found now?”
Director Chen Litian: “You bring me your files and let me take a look first, alright? The thing you just said is nonsense! Who can use those of Falun Gong practitioners? We only use state-sanctioned---normally donated organs.” … “(What your former classmate said is) impossible! I have never used that kind (of organs).” ... “We are a legitimate hospital and do not do those things!” ... “I have never heard of anyone donating Falun Gong people’s organs in this entire country. We do not have any livers from Falun Gong practitioners, and we do not have that kind of donors, so stop spouting nonsense! He was just making things up! Bullshit! Totally insane! None of us would use that kind of organs (from Falun Gong practitioners). Throughout the entire People’s Republican of China, the whole country, nationwide, nobody uses that kind of organs (from Falun Gong practitioners). He is totally nuts and out of his mind!”
(Recording 2 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf 072)
Investigation Respondent: Gu Jinyang, Director of Liver Transplantation in Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Investigation Date: April 3, 2020 (Tel: +86-21-25078999)
Summary:
1. Type B, then we will do it immediately.
2. Director Gu’s mobile phone number is 15000596988. Please contact him.
3. You need to prepare 700 to 800 thousand rmb yuan.
4. The liver sources have been plenty recently.
5. One or two weeks? I can’t guarantee that, but within one month, okay?
(Recording 3 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf026)
Investigation Respondent: Dr. Zhao Shuai, Liver Transplantation Department in Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Investigation Date: April 23, 2020 (Tel: +86-13482257875)
Summary:
1. If the patient’s condition is not too bad and it’s type B, the waiting time for a donor is about two weeks on average.
2. There was this unconscious liver patient who was admitted to the hospital, and the next day a type B liver was found and the transplant was done for him.
3. There’s a Director Yang in the department, and it’s always him doing the transplant. I am a doctor under him.
4. Most organ transplant centers in the country do about 100 cases every year.
5. Our hospital does about 50 - 60 transplant cases a year.
(Recording 4 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf050)
Investigation Respondent: Dr. Zhao Shuai, Liver Transplant, Organ Transplantation Department of Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Investigation Date: April 23, 2020 (Tel: +86-13482257875)
Summary:
Investigator: “We want to get an organ from a Falun Gong practitioner. Can you find one for us?”
Dr. Zhao: “There have been no such things since 2015, it must have been done before 2015, and before 2015 there were such things.”
(Recording 5 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf050)
Investigation Respondent: Nurse at Ward Unit III, Hepatobiliary Surgery of General Surgery, Xinhua Hospital of Shanghai Medical University
Investigation Date: December 3, 2020 (Tel: +86 21-25077905)
Summary
1. Directors Gu Jiyang and Chen Tianli each leads a team doing liver transplants.
2. This is the cellphone number of Dr.Zhang who’s responsible for organs for Gu Jinyang’s team:+86 015026559088. He knows more details than I do.
3. Since our two directors both have liver transplant patients, so we have quite a lot of liver transplant patients to take care of.
4. There are liver transplant patients every day, many of them every day.
5.There are just liver transplant patients who keep coming here. There are several beds in our ward specially for liver transplant patients, and there are several on the fourth floor that simultaneously accommodate liver transplant patients.
(Recording 6 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf65)
Investigation Respondent: Dr. Zhao Shuai, Department of Liver Transplantation, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Investigation Date: February 23, 2023 (Tel:+86 13482257875)
Summary:
1. “Based on past experience, I estimate that (the wait time for a surgery) may take two months.”
2. “The total cost is about 700,000 to 800,000 yuan, and that includes the liver source and medical expenses.”
3. “The vast majority of organs in Shanghai are brought in from other places. This is because roughly over 1,000 liver transplants are performed in Shanghai every year, but only around 100 organs are donated in Shanghai each year, so there is a gap of approximately 1,000 organs that needs to be filled with organs from other places.”
(Recording 7 download: MP3; transcript download: MP3)
References
[1]《好大夫在线》上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院移植外科陈立天简介
http://www.haodf.com/doctor/DE4r0BCkuHzdeSY-57ej6dZX-ciU9.htm
[2]"Good Doctor Online" Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Affiliated Xinhua Hospital Transplant Surgery Department Chen Litian Profile
http://www.haodf.com/doctor/DE4r0BCkuHzdeSY-57ej6dZX-ciU9.htm
《天津医药》2009年37卷09期 793-794页（英文期刊名：TIANJIN MEDICAL JOURNAL） “供肝快速切取术中应注意的相关问题分析”
作者：陈立天、沈中阳、朱志军、郑虹、邓永林、潘澄、臧运金
http://new.med.wanfangdata.com.cn/Paper/Detail?id=PeriodicalPaper_tjyy2…
[3]"Tianjin Medical Journal" 2009 Volume 37, Issue 09, Pages 793-794 (English Journal Name: TIANJIN MEDICAL JOURNAL) "Analysis of Relevant Issues to be Noted in Rapid Liver Procurement"
Authors: Chen Litian, Shen Zhongyang, Zhu Zhijun, Zheng Hong, Deng Yonglin, Pan Cheng, Zang Yunjin
http://new.med.wanfangdata.com.cn/Paper/Detail?id=PeriodicalPaper_tjyy2…
《中华普通外科杂志》2005年20卷08期 522-524页（英文期刊名：CHINESE JOURNAL OF GENERAL SURGERY）“肝移植术后早期颅内出血五例临床分析”作者：邓永林、陈立天、沈中阳(300192,天津市第一中心医院移植外科)；
http://new.med.wanfangdata.com.cn/Paper/Detail?id=PeriodicalPaper_zhptw…
[4]"Chinese Journal of General Surgery" 2005 Volume 20, Issue 08, Pages 522-524 (English Journal Name: CHINESE JOURNAL OF GENERAL SURGERY) "Clinical Analysis of Five Cases of Early Intracranial Hemorrhage After Liver Transplantation"
Authors: Deng Yonglin, Chen Litian, Shen Zhongyang (300192, Transplant Surgery Department, First Central Hospital of Tianjin)
http://new.med.wanfangdata.com.cn/Paper/Detail?id=PeriodicalPaper_zhptw…
《上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院》肝移植科简介
http://med.xinhuamed.com.cn/DepartmentDetail-59.aspx
"Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine" Liver Transplant Department Introduction
