Fu Zhiren
Fu Zhiren, male, born in October, 1960[1].
Professor, chief surgeon, Ph.D supervisor. Director of the Organ Transplantation Department of Changzheng Hospital affiliated to the Shanghai Second Military Medical University. Deputy director level member of the Transplant Immunology Branch of the Chinese Society of Immunology; Standing Member and Secretary-General of the PLA’s Organ Transplant Academic Committee; director level member-elect of the Organ Transplantation Specialist Committee of the Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; member of the National Organ Transplantation Committee; member of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; and member on the boards of editors of "Chinese Journal of Organ Transplantation" and other 10-plus journals.
Fu Zhiren conducted liver transplant experiments on animals in 1994, and successfully performed human liver transplants in 1996. As of 2014, the department had performed a total of 1,240 liver transplants[2].
The hospital is the CCP’s major institution in the military to harvest organs from living Falun Gong practitioners [3]
According to a WOIPFG’s telephone investigation conducted in September 2014 on Bai Shuzhong who served as the minister of the Health Division of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Logistics Department between 1998 and 2004, it can be concluded the affiliated hospitals of the CCP’s Military Medical Universities are the major institutions to carry out organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, and the Second Affiliated Hospital of the PLA’s Naval Medical University (a.k.a. Affiliated Changzheng Hospital of the Second Military Medical University) is no exception.
(Recording 1 downloadMP3; transcript download: pdf16)
The Organ Transplant Center of Changzheng Hospital is the CCP’s first organ transplantation institute in the military. It was established in early 2003 by combining a kidney transplantation group in the Department of Urology and a liver transplantation group in the Department of General Surgery of the Second Affiliated Hospital of PLA Naval Medical University. It was approved on December 17, 2003, as the first PLA research institute of organ transplant, by the PLA Department of General Logistics. It is now the highest level organ transplantation institution in the military, combining medical treatment, teaching and research. It can carry out many kinds of transplantation, such as kidney, liver, heart, simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation, and simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation. The number of transplantation cases ranked among the top in China.[4] The Organ Transplantation Research Institute made rapid advances particularly in adult liver transplantation, adult kidney transplantation, pediatric liver transplantation, pediatric kidney transplantation, live liver transplantation, live kidney transplantation, liver and kidney joint transplantation, pancreas and kidney joint transplantation.[5] The Organ Transplantation Center of the Second Military Medical University was also set up in the Changzheng Hospital, and so was the “Shanghai Kidney Transplantation Quality Control Center.”[6]
The Organ Transplant Center of Changzheng Hospital had 120 beds in 2014. It has liver transplantation, kidney transplantation, liver and gallbladder surgery clinic, hospitalization ward, and an organ transplantation rehabilitation ward. It has 6 labs including tissue matching, medicine concentration monitoring, organs storage, animal testing, transplantation immunology and transplantation pathology.[7]
The Organ Transplantation Center’s official website claims that, in the 9-day period from April 22 to April 30, 2005, the center carried out 16 liver transplants and 15 kidney transplants. [8]
The waiting time for emergency liver transplant was once as short as 4 hours
The organ transplant center performs a large number of emergency liver transplants, and the waiting time for donors is extremely short, with the shortest waiting time being 4 hours.
In the three years from 2003 to 2006, the team led by Fu Zhiren of Changzheng Hospital performed 120 emergency liver transplants, with the shortest waiting time being 4 hours after the patient was admitted to the hospital. [9] This shows that the hospital can quickly obtain organs from living donors as needed.
Figure 1 A snapshot of an article published in the Journal of Clinical Surgery in June 2006
In the expert list of Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Ma Jun introduced: So far, more than 1,240 liver transplant perioperative treatments have been completed (including more than 300 patients with severe hepatitis).[10]
The official website shows that the average waiting time for liver transplant patients is one week
The liver transplant application form clearly states that the average waiting time for liver transplant patients is one week.
Medical papers show evidence of Changzheng Hospital involved in forced organ harvesting
The medical paper published in “Shanghai Medicine” in November 2004 shows that from October 2001 to September 2004, Changzheng Hospital performed 240 liver transplants, with warm ischemia time of the donor livers being 0-8 minutes[11].
The warm ischemia time of these 240 donor livers was 0 to 8 minutes. When the warm ischemia time is zero or very short, the organs will be suspected to have come from living people. The reasons are as follows:
The warm ischemia time is zero, which means that when the organ is harvested, there is a heartbeat and blood supply. That is, organ harvesting from living donor. Generally, it can be done only when organs are taken when the donor is brain-dead or still alive.
In principle, there are no "brain-dead donors" or organs harvested from "brain-dead donors" in China that have a zero or ultra-short warm ischemia time.
The medical paper shows that the liver transplants took place from October 2001 to September 2004. At that time, China had no brain death legislation, no diagnostic criteria for brain death, and no sound organ donation system. Therefore, there were basically no "brain dead organs" or "brain dead donors." Therefore, the 240 liver transplants reported in this paper with ischemic times of 0-8 minutes are evidence of organ harvesting from living donors.
Investigation Respondent: Fu Zhiren, director of Liver Transplant Department, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital
Investigation Date: February 24, 2023 (Tel: +86-13901634770 )
Summary:
1. “Anyway, one or two months are still needed, and sometimes it is faster, but that’s an exception. It probably takes a month or two.”
2. “I actually work at both Ruijin and Changzheng (Hospitals). I do less (surgeries) at Changzheng Hospital, and more at Ruijin Hospital. If (a surgery is) needed, I’ll probably have to do it at Ruijin.”
3. “My cell phone number for Ruijin: 1390 1634 770”
4. “Our hospital also has donations, and there are also some from outside... some through allocation, and it’s a combined source.”
(Recording 2 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf7)
References
[1] Recommended by Sina Blog: Liver Transplantation Team of Shanghai Changzheng Hospital
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_59d5a1e10100a5kt.html
[2] Expert Directory of Shanghai Changzheng Hospital: Fu Zhiren
http://www.shczyy.com/App/Expert/ExpertDetail.aspx?ExpertID=148
https://web.archive.org/web/20140419184450/http://www.shczyy.com/App/Ex…
[3]WOIPFG Obtained New Evidence: Jiang Zemin Ordered the Harvesting of Organs from Falun Gong Practitioners for Transplantation
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/260
[4] Introduction of Department of Organ Transplantation of Shanghai Changzheng Hospital.Retrieved from
http://www.shczyy.com/front/officeShow.aspx?id=39
WOIPFG archived links:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2015/59389_629.p…
http://www.upholdjustice.org/sites/default/files/report/2015/325-629.png
[5] Organ Transplantation Research Institute, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital. Retrieved from http://www.shczyy.com/front/officeShow.aspx?id=21
[6] Kidney transplantation master Zhu Youhua: He finds happiness for “kidney friends”. (2009, Nov 26). Retrieved from http://news.qq.com/a/20091126/000439.htm
[7] “Shanghai Changzheng Hospital” Organ Transplantation Research Institute
http://www.shczyy.com/front/officeShow.aspx?id=21
[8] Minghui.org: Investigation Leads: Report on Organ Transplants in Shanghai (Photos)
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/16/130559.html (Chinese)
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/6/23/74738.html (English)
[9]“Journal of Clinical Surgery” June 2006, Volume 14, Number 6
“Post operation issues and solutions after transplantation for serious hepatitis patients” Authors: Fu Zhiren, Ma Jun, “Shanghai Changzheng Hospital” Organ Transplantation Department, 200003
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/635.pdf
[10] “Shanghai Changzheng Hospital” Experts Name List: Ma Jun
http://www.shczyy.com/App/Expert/ExpertDetail.aspx?ExpertID=150
WOIPFG archived links:
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06121…
[11] Fu Zhiren, Wang Zhengxin, Ding Guoshan, Fu Hong, Zhang Jianjun, Li Xianxing, Ni Zhijia, GuoWenyuan, Shi Xiaomin, Cao Xiaowei, Shi Yongzhao. (2004). Review and analysis of approaches used in 231 cases (240 times) of liver transplants. Shanghai Medical Journal, 2004, Vol. 27, Issue 11, pp 805-807. WOIPFG archived link: http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/medicalarticles/61.pdf
