(Clearwisdom.net) One month after the horrifying discovery of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and the immediate cremation of their bodies to destroy the evidence was exposed on March 4, 2006, the Falun Dafa Association and the Minghui and Clearwisdom websites founded the "Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China" (CIPFG). CIPFG is collecting information from people who have come forward with information and is calling on people who know the truth to further expose the crimes concerning illegal organ harvesting in China.

We call on all people of conscience to lend their help to expose the facts of this vicious persecution of Falun Gong practitioners inside secret concentration camps, forced labor camps, prisons and hospitals in China. The sooner this atrocity is fully exposed, the sooner this brutal persecution will end. Below is information that came to light recently.

Investigation Lead: Zhongnan University Hunan Medical College Affiliated No. 1 Hospital Conducted Six Kidney Transplants in 2005

On September 3, 2005, the website of Hunan Medical College affiliated No. 1 Hospital (Xiangya Hospital) made the following announcements in the hospital's newsletter, Comprehensive Medical News: "Large-scale Organ Transplants Easy as Having a Meal" and "Completed One Liver Transplant, Six Kidney Transplants, Eight Cornea Transplants in One Day."(

Source: http://www.xiangya.com.cn/medpro/xyyx/zhyx/2005-06-03/medpro_20050603230411.html)

Ms. Chen Dizhi, 34 years old and a farmer, had nephritis since she was 8 years old. In 2005, she went to Zhongnan University Hunan Medical College affiliated No. 1 Hospital (or Xiangya Hospital) for a kidney transplant. At the time of her operation, the hospital was handling six kidney transplant cases. The surgery fee was over 200,000 yuan, and Ms. Chen's family member provided the required medical documentation.

Contact Information for Xiangya Hospital:

Address: 87 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan Province, P.R.C.China

Switchboard: 86-731-4328888
Fax: 86-731-4327332
Xiangya Paging: 86-731-4327888
Postal code: 410008

Director of the Uropoiesis Surgical Department and a Chief Surgeon Responsible for Organ Transplants Told of "Covert"Organ Transplants

Shi Longsheng was the director of the Uropoiesis Surgical Department and a chief surgeon responsible for organ transplants at Xinjiang Urumqi Air Force Hospital (he was killed in a car accident on February 3, 2007).

Shi Longsheng once said that hospitals in Xingjiang were conducting covert (or "secret") organ transplant operations, according to an unspecified witness. There are three hospitals in Xinjiang: Urumqi Air Force Hospital, Urumqi Hospital and Urumqi Provincial Hospital. Only the Air Force Hospital conducted over 100 organ transplant cases in a year. This is an unprecedented number.

According to Dr. Shi's wife, the sources of these organs are said to be executed criminals. Shi Longsheng's family says that the majority of the organ buyers are from Uzbekistan and nearby countries. Large-scale organ harvesting from unwilling donors is one of the means the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) violates human rights in order to reap huge profits.

Double Lung Transplant Organ Source Suspect

On September 12, 2007, Yanzhao Metropolis Paper reported news of the first successful case of a double lung transplant.

On September 11, Huaxi Hospital held a press conference and announced the success of the first case of a double lung transplant in Sichuan Province. The Yanzhao Metropolis report said that a Chengdu Daily reporter learned that after a six-hour operation, medical personnel at Huaxi Hospital successfully conducted a double lung transplant for patient Huang Yisheng, who had been diagnosed with severe pulmonary fibrosis.

Huang Yisheng, 38 and from Bazhong City, has been a mine worker in Shannxi Province since he was 21. In December 2006, he suddenly fainted while working in the mine. The local hospital diagnosed him as having pneumoconiosis and said his lungs were completely affected with pulmonary fibrosis.

As a miner, Huang Yisheng survives on a meager income, thus rendering him unable to afford the cost of adequate medical treatment for his lung disease or for the lung transplant. Nevertheless, medical personnel at Huaxi Hospital decided to do the double lung transplant for him. After the operation, the hospital said that the success of the operation "indicates lung disease patients with late-stage pulmonary fibrosis might be cured." The current health of Huang Yisheng is not known.

One important overlooked detail of this case is that the hospital never mentioned the source of the organs used in Huang Yisheng's operation. Since the organ transplant industry in China is unregulated, and given the overwhelming evidence of large-scale organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, it is likely that the organs were taken from an unwilling donor who may have been alive at the time of surgery.