Chen Guoyong
Summary: Chen Guoyong, male, born on September 9, 1971. Director and Chief Surgeon of the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Transplantation Surgery Department at Henan Provincial People's Hospital. Former Vice President and Chief Surgeon of Zhengzhou People's Hospital, Director of Liver Transplantation, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery. He was once appointed as the Deputy Director of the Organ Transplant Center of the PLA’s 309 Hospital. As of 2014, he had performed over 500 combined large organ extractions, over 500 kidney transplants, over 100 liver transplants, and 10 each of combined liver-kidney and pancreas-kidney transplants. According to public data from the 2011 Zhengzhou People's Hospital official website, the hospital's liver surgery department completed nearly 100 liver transplants annually, with over 20 emergency liver transplants each year, all for patients with acute liver failure. Investigations by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) into Zhengzhou People's Hospital revealed: numerous donors, short waiting times, sometimes as short as 2 to 3 days, and the availability of young, healthy donors.
In view of the broader background of the Chinese Communist Party's state crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, and since Henan Provincial People's Hospital is allegedly involved in the crime, Chen Guoyong, the director of the hospital's Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Transplantation Surgery Department, is a major suspect.
Chen Guoyong,[1] male, born on September 9, 1971[2]. Master's degree, chief surgeon. Director of the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Transplantation Surgery, Henan Provincial People's Hospital. From 2013 to 2018, he served as the deputy director level member of the Henan Provincial Organ Transplant Specialty Branch; from 2018 to 2022, he served as deputy director level member of the Henan Provincial Organ Transplant Specialty Branch.
Educational background: September 1990-July 1993, Xinxiang Medical College; September 2002-July 2005, Zhengzhou University; January 2010-March 2010, Kyoto University School of Medicine, Japan; April 2012-May 2012, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea; June 2009-May 2011, 309th Hospital of the People's Liberation Army; April 2017-May 2017, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA.
Work experience: 1994-2015, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhengzhou People's Hospital; 2015-Present, Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henan Provincial People's Hospital. Former Vice President and Chief Surgeon of Zhengzhou People's Hospital, Director of Liver Transplantation, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Master's degree. Corresponding editor of the Editorial Board of Organ Transplantation Magazine, deputy director level member of Henan Organ Transplantation Society, Associate Professor of Southern Medical University, and was employed as Deputy Director of the Organ Transplantation Center of the 309th Hospital of the People's Liberation Army.[3]
After graduating from Henan Medical University, Chen Guoyong has been engaged in kidney transplantation and liver transplantation in the Department of Urology. He participated in the first living-donor kidney transplantation and liver-kidney combined transplantation in Henan Province. In 2010 and 2012, he was a visiting scholar at Kyoto University School of Medicine in Japan and Asan Medical Center in South Korea to conduct academic research and surgical demonstrations on living-donor liver transplantation and hepatobiliary, pancreatic and spleen diseases.[4] As of 2014, he had performed more than 500 combined organ extractions, more than 500 kidney transplants, more than 100 liver transplants, and 10 combined liver-kidney transplants and pancreas-kidney transplants.[5]
According to public data on the official website of Zhengzhou People's Hospital in 2011, the Liver Surgery Department of the hospital completes nearly 100 liver transplants and more than 20 emergency liver transplants with acute liver failure every year[6]. At the same time, the hospital also carried out the first small bowel transplant in Henan Province, and was actively researching abdominal organ cluster transplantation.
Telephone investigation into Zhengzhou People's Hospital revealed that there are many donors, the waiting time is short, the fastest is only 2-3 days, and there are young and good ones to pick. The transplant volume is large, and the donation volume is small.
1. The young and good donors can be picked for their organs.
Investigation Respondent: Chen Yongfeng, Doctor of Zhengzhou People's Hospital
Investigation Date: June 26, 2015
Summary:
The liver transplant done at our hospital is the best in Henan. We just did a few transplants today, two liver transplants; “The donor is from our local. The quality is not an issue; if you want to do it and have plenty of time, we can select a liver from a good, younger donor. We have plenty of donors, so we can pick the young and good ones, but I cannot promise you that in the future.” (Recording 1 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf 6) [7].
2. The waiting time is short
Investigation Respondent: Doctor on Duty of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhengzhou People's Hospital
Investigation Date: June 25, 2015 (Tel: 8637163933151)
Summary: The doctor on duty for hepatobiliary surgery said: “Waiting for donors generally takes 3-2 days, and even as long as nearly 10 days. The cost is about 500,000 RMB Yuan. We have a lot of donors.” When asked about the reason for a fast waiting time, and the origin of donors, 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 assured. "
(Recording 2 download: MP3, transcript download: pdf 7) [8].
Investigation Respondent: Chen Jianbin, a liver transplant surgeon at Zhengzhou People’s Hospital.
Investigation Date: September 25, 2015.
Summary: In a telephone investigation conducted by WOIPFG, the doctor clearly answered that the waiting time for a liver transplant is only 2-3 days, and a liver transplant can be done in ten days to half a month at most.
(Recording 3 download: MP3; for transcript details, please see: Attachment 11) [9]
3. The number of transplants is large
Investigation Respondent: Wang Bing, Surgeon, Liver Transplant, Zhengzhou People's Hospital
Investigation Date: June 28, 2015, (Tel: +86-15038199893)
Summary:
In a telephone investigation conducted by a WOIPFG investigator, he responded:
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 resent years, the number of transplants was still ranked in the top 5 in the country. two cases were done this week and three last week; everybody knows that we are good at it, and work has never let up on obtaining donors. We have network across the whole country, very strong connections; our hospital does a lot every year. To be honest, our hospital does not rank well in the country, but our organ transplantation is very well done! Very competitive.
(Recording 4 download: MP3; for transcript, please see: Attachment 7) [10]
Investigation Respondent: Zhang Jixiang, deputy director of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Henan Province People’s Hospital
Investigation Date: January 22, 2021 (Tel: +86- 371-87160405)
Summary
1. Director Chen does hundreds of surgeries a year, and that’s not an exaggeration.
2. It’s primarily Director Chen doing transplants, primarily it’s Director Chen.
3. There are people specifically responsible for this area of work, so when you need anything, you may ask them.
(Recording 5 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf74)
Investigation Respondent: Liver Transplant, Henan Province People’s Hospital
Investigation Date: May 2, 2020 (Tel: +86-37187160405)
Summary
1. Go to the outpatient clinic for pneumonia test first.
2. Director Chen Guoyong performs liver transplants. For liver transplant, it’s usually him doing it.
(Recording 6 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf064)
4. Donations are few
In March 2015, Liu Zhonghua, the chief surgeon of the Urological Department at Henan Provincial People's Hospital said, “It is almost impossible for Chinese people to donate their organs. You can’t find anyone; you can hardly find anyone. If they are not blood relationship, who would be willing to give you their organs?!”
(Recording 7 download:MP3; for transcript, please see: Attachment 17)
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[8]Zhuichaguoji.org. "The Latest WOIPFG Investigation: CCP's Harvesting Falun Gong Practitioners’ Organs Did Not Stop But Increased". Nov. 27, 2015. Updated on Dec. 20, 2015. http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/50795
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