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Investigation Leads: Organ Harvesting from Living People Is Still Rampant
(Clearwisdom.net) Since the public exposure of the Chinese Communist
Party's crimes of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners
for profit and cremating their bodies to destroy the evidence, the Falun Dafa
Association and the Minghui/Clearwisdom website jointly organized the Coalition
to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG). Far-reaching
investigations commenced. The following are recent leads into the organ
harvesting crimes in China. We hope that people with inside information will
continue to help expose the crimes taking place in forced labor camps, prisons
and hospitals in China, and help end the persecution of Falun Gong. 1. Organ Harvesting from Living People Is Still Rampant Recently I met a law firm administrator in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. He
mentioned the new issue of lethal injection as a means of carrying out the death
penalty in China, but said it is difficult to actually carry out. If you want to
perform it, you not only need to apply to the High Court, but also have to pay a
large amount of money for it. But execution by shooting is different. It is
easy, and cheap to get a gun and bullets. An intermediate court can earn more
than 100 thousand yuan per gunshot execution. Agents for these
court-ordered executions can sell all of the executed individual's useful organs
and sometimes even sell the remains that the hospital has discarded. I told him that the central government officials had just published certain
documents containing strict stipulations regarding organ transplants. He said
that it is still the same situation. Who would refuse the potential for such a
huge profit? Intermediate court officials travel abroad many times a year, and
each time they go by air and stay in five-star hotels. Where do they get their
money? I said that I had heard of an incident where a prisoner on death row wanted
to sell all his useful organs, to compensate the dependents of his victim, to
appease his conscience. If there was any surplus, he wanted the money to be used
for his children's benefit. Court officials however, firmly denied his request.
The law firm administrator said that officials at the High Court didn't agree to
his request because they didn't want to get into trouble. The Intermediate Court
didn't agree because they didn't want other people to get the money they had
earmarked for themselves. 2. Another Heart Transplant at the Second Hospital Affiliated with Harbin
Medical University, Source of Heart Suspicious According to a tip from someone with inside information, on December 24,
2007, surgeons at the Second Hospital Affiliated with Harbin Medical University
performed a heart transplant operation. The male donor's heart came from
Mudanjiang City, and the operation of removing the organ was conducted on a bus
for employees. It is uncertain whether the heart donor is a Falun Gong practitioner, but
based on the method used to obtain the heart, on a bus, the source of the heart
is very suspicious. Second Hospital Affiliated with Harbin Medical University, General Line:
86-451-86605222 3. Doctors at Linyi People's Hospital in Shandong Province Collude with the
Court and Perform a Large Number of Kidney Transplants Shandong Linyi People's Hospital, an AAA hospital, is the largest and has the
strongest technical expertise in Lingyi City. Several people testified that
there are many organ transplants performed in this hospital. Many patients go there for kidney transplants, especially to the urology
department, and the success rate is high. According to those who take part in
kidney harvesting, they mainly cooperate with court officials in obtaining donor
organs. The hospital officials get advance notice when an execution by shooting
is about to happen. The executed prisoner is immediately carried to a previously
readied "hospital ambulance," where the prisoner's body is opened and
organs harvested within a few minutes. It is said that most patients receiving organ transplant surgery are from
overseas, especially from Japan. Shanghai Hospitals also take part in organ harvesting. Doctors from Shanghai
usually take the liver, heart, and spleen, while doctors from the Linyi People's
Hospital specialize in kidney transplant surgeries. A staff person who had worked in the Linyi People's Hospital said that the
court purposely increased the fee for "Asking for the body" from the
executed persons' families to avoid having the secret of stealing prisoners'
organs disclosed. ("Asking for the body" is the means by which a
family can pay to receive the body of their executed family member.) The court
also tells those doctors who do organ harvesting that the prisoners' family
members have agreed to the procedure. The fee for "Asking for the body" includes the bullet fee, wreath
fee, preservation fee, cremation fee etc. The total aggregate fee is more than
10 thousand yuan. Many prisoners' families cannot afford this fee and have to
give up their right to receive and examine their family member's body. 4. "Liver Transplantation" Will Be Covered by Medical Insurance in
Shenyang Province According to a report in the Shenyang media, people from the Social Security
Bureau announced that medical insurance covers liver transplantation surgery.
People who undergo organ transplant surgery only pay 15% of the surgery fee. If
they undergo both a liver and kidney transplant and if the total cost is 200
thousand yuan, the insurance covers at least 50% of the total fee. This indicates that officials are trying to attract more patients for such
surgeries, making the procedure more affordable, thus requiring a larger number
of organs. As many doctors in China are very corrupt, even if it is not
necessary for a patient to undergo transplantation surgery, to increase their
income or for reasons of "medical research," many doctors may
recommend that their patients undergo the procedure. This means that more Falun Gong practitioners who are held in the live organ
bank continue to be in danger of losing their lives at any moment. January 27, 2008 |