Four heart transplants a day at Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital

Within 14 hours, Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital completed four DBD (brain dead) heart transplants at the same time. (Web Screenshot)

” On the 4th day, a donor heart was urgently contacted by the cardiac macrovascular surgery team of the Union Hospital”, “Fortunately, the heart donor of a 20-year-old brain-dead man was matched within a week”, ” Four heart transplants in a row in one day ” …… This is what appears in news reports about transplants at the Union Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan Union Hospital) in the last year.

According to Hu Yu, president of Wuhan Union Hospital, the hospital’s heart transplant is a “Chinese model” of heart transplantation that meets the characteristics of China’s national conditions. Experts believe that the speed with which heart donors are found for patients indicates that the CCP has access to organs on demand and a large pool of living organs.

Tracing International’s investigation also revealed that the Chinese Communist Party has not stopped its crime of organ harvesting against the backdrop of the global pandemic of the Chinese Communist virus (Wuhan pneumonia).

Wuhan Union Hospital Sets Record for Heart Transplants

On March 18, 2021, the Changjiang Daily reported on a record heart transplant at Wuhan Union Hospital, which continues to lead the country in the number of heart transplants performed on children with 100.

In the report, Fanfan, a seven-year-old child who received a heart transplant, was matched with a heart donor from a 20-year-old brain-dead man in less than a week.

On August 7, 2020, the Chutian Metropolis Daily reported with the title “First in the country! Concord Hospital completes four ‘heart transplant’ operations in one day”, reported another record for heart transplants at Wuhan Union Hospital.

The report said that within 14 hours from 10 a.m. to midnight on August 6, Wuhan Union Hospital completed four DBD (brain dead) heart transplants at the same time. The report also said that the completion of four brain-dead heart transplants in the same unit on the same day is currently the first of its kind in China and extremely rare in the world.

In June 2020, the Chutian Metropolis Daily reported in high profile on a multinational heart transplant at Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital, where four matching hearts were prepared for the patient within 10 days.

The female patient, Ling Ling, returned to Wuhan from Japan on June 12, and the first matching heart was found for her three days later on June 16. Another matching heart was found on the third day after the abandoned operation (June 19), and two more matching hearts were found in one day on June 25, before a very strong beating male donor heart was selected.

Mainland media reports indicate that Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital not only had a short time to obtain a matching heart donor, but also had an adequate supply of donors.

Hu Yu, president of Wuhan Union Hospital, said in 2018 that the hospital has been No. 1 in the country in the number of heart transplants for four consecutive years. The official website of Wuhan Union Hospital describes 310 consecutive heart transplants performed at Wuhan Union Hospital in the past five years.

When the Chinese Communist Party announced that China would stop using organs from death row inmates for organ transplants from Jan. 1, 2015, and when many doctors were worried about the source of organs becoming a problem, Dong Nianguo, director of cardiac surgery and director of the organ transplant center at Wuhan Union Hospital, said in late December of that year that the number of organ transplants at Union Hospital had increased rather than decreased. He also marketed that the cost of heart transplants at the Union Hospital was the lowest in the country, averaging 280,000 yuan, just 1/22 of the cost in the United States.

Wuhan Union Hospital surpassed 100 heart transplants in 2015 with 102 cases, according to the Dec. 31, 2015 Hubei Daily News.

Donor acquisition time in heart transplant less than a week

On July 12, 2018, at the “National Medical Technology Capacity and Medical Quality Level Enhancement Hubei Press Conference,” Wuhan Union Hospital President Hu Yu specifically introduced the hospital’s heart transplantation as a “Chinese model” heart transplant that meets the characteristics of China’s national conditions. The hospital’s heart transplantation is a “Chinese model” of heart transplantation that meets the characteristics of China.

The above mainland report promoting the heart transplantation achievements of Wuhan Union Hospital shows that the short time to obtain a heart donor is one of its characteristics. Wuhan Union Hospital can obtain a matching heart donor in less than a week, and can even prepare four hearts for transplantation in 10 days for one patient.

Outsiders have noted that donor organs are currently the only source of organ transplants, and Wuhan Union Hospital’s ultra-short time frame for obtaining heart donors does not match China’s donor situation.

Indications are that the voluntary organ donation system that the CCP touted as having begun in 2015 is not really working. during the CCP’s two sessions in March 2021, CCP deputy Chen Jingyu submitted a motion to the NPC meeting, “Proposal to Include Organ Donation Rate in Civilized City Assessment Criteria,” in an attempt to use administrative means to force donations. Although Hubei ranks second in China in the number of organ donations, Hubei Daily reported on April 5, 2021 that there is a large shortage of organ supply in Wuhan, with 1,600 remains needed each year, while the total number of remains donated in Wuhan is about 200 per year; the number of remains donated is still 100 less than reported in 2019.

In contrast, in the United States, where the organ donation system is well established and developed, patients have to wait an average of 6.9 months to receive a matching heart.

The Hubei Daily reported on April 10, 2019 that the city of Wuhan needs 1,600 bodies per year, while the total number of body donations in Wuhan is about 300 per year. (Web screenshot)

Current affairs commentator Yu Qingxin has published an article arguing that Wuhan Union Hospital is an anti-matching phenomenon of organs and other people, so it is unlikely that the donor heart came from the normal channels of voluntary citizen donations.

Dr. Lin Xiaoxu, a consultant for Physicians Against Forced Picking, shares the same view. He previously said, “The fact that it was able to find a match in such a short period of time shows that it actually has a very large organ bank of living bodies.”

He said, “This huge source is these people who have lost their freedom in various prisons and detention centers, the largest living organ bank of the Chinese Communist Party, and many reports have mentioned that the Chinese Communist Party forces blood tests on prisoners of conscience in detention, and they are using these people as a living organ bank, which is why it was able to find a source of organs that could match in such a limited time. “

According to Dr. Lin, voluntary organ donation in China is still in its infancy, and what the Chinese government now calls “organ transplant donor matching” is a black box model of “allocation on demand,” an industry chain led by the Chinese government.

“The Communist Party’s public prosecution system and the “610” system are actually intermediaries, while the Communist Party’s prisons and detention centers are organ farms, and then the hospitals do the organ transplants, which is a very scary industrial chain that is dominated by the Chinese government. ” He said.

A common phenomenon in the mainland transplant community

Short donor waiting times are a common phenomenon in the mainland transplant community, and not just unique to Wuhan Union Hospital.

At the Great Wall 2019, Huang Jie from China’s National Heart Transplant Quality Control Center and Beijing Fu Wai Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences gave a lecture on “Preoperative Evaluation and Postoperative Management of Heart Transplantation”. She disclosed the phenomenon of heart donors and other patients in the Chinese transplant community.

She said that donation is one aspect, because there are still enough donors, and many patients have wasted donors because they were not evaluated in a timely manner. She also said that the average waiting time for a donor takes about five days for patients receiving emergency heart transplants due to donor factors.

According to Xinhua News Network on September 8, 2020, Nanjing No. 1 Hospital had completed 102 “heart transplant” operations up to that time. Among them, Mr. Zhang, 54, was admitted to the hospital with dilated cardiomyopathy and was given a heart for transplant just three days later, on August 21.

Zhengzhou Cardiovascular Hospital carried out nearly 80 heart transplants in two and a half years, according to Dahe Daily on Dec. 16, 2020. 8-year-old girl Tong Tong was admitted to the hospital for left heart failure, and in less than a week, the group received a donor and had a heart transplant on Nov. 11.

The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University 2020 carried out at least 20 heart transplants in 2020, Zhejiang News Client reported on September 24, 2020. One of them was a 78-year-old coronary heart disease patient who suddenly collapsed at home without warning on July 5, 2020 and was transferred to the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University; he waited for a matching heart for transplantation on July 17.

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Brain death in heart transplantation

When Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital President Hu Yu introduced the “Chinese model” of heart transplantation at Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital, the protection of brain-dead hearts was listed as the first breakthrough in technology and other aspects.

According to mainland media reports, Wuhan Union Hospital is able to obtain a large number of brain-dead heart donors with high frequency and high efficiency, such as four brain-dead donor hearts within 14 hours.

Dong Nianguo, director of the organ transplant center at Wuhan Union Hospital, revealed in 2015 that 80% of the patients waiting for heart replacement in the hospital’s cardiac surgery department were able to wait for a heart source to perform heart replacement surgery. He also revealed a strange phenomenon that a large portion of the hospital’s heart transplant operations are performed at night.

According to a November 12, 2004 article in the China Chief Medical Network titled “Selection of Heart Transplant Donor Hearts,” brain-dead donor hearts are the predominant source of organs for heart transplantation on the mainland. Brain death alleviates the shortage of organ sources. And heart organ transplants are mainly taken from brain-dead donors after severe traumatic brain injury.

Ye Qi, professor of organ transplantation at Central South Hospital, speaking at the 2014 Hangzhou Organ Transplantation Conference. He said that about 70 percent of hospitals are not interested in organ transplants from post-mortem donations and have a negative attitude because they prefer “living” transplants with high success rates.

An international investigation overseas found that Communist military police and doctors artificially created “brain death” in donors so that organs could be harvested alive. Former Chongqing Public Security Bureau chief Wang Lijun and others, in collaboration with the Third Military Medical University, also invented the “Primary Brainstem Injury Impactor” (Patent No. CN201120542042), which is designed to create “brain death.

At the end of 2017, the South Korean documentary “TV Chosun” produced and broadcast a feature film “Killing to Live” based on a survey of 20,000 Koreans who had their organs transplanted in mainland China. “TV Chosun found that Chinese hospitals used a patented device invented by Wang Lijun for organ donors, and recreated a primary brainstem injury impact machine in the film.

On March 21, 2021, the International Coalition to End Organ Abuse in China (ETAC) released a new video calling on the international medical community to cut ties with the Chinese Communist Party’s organ transplant industry, saying that if we don’t act now, more lives will be lost. , more people will lose their lives.”