Schematic diagram of the sale of human organs by piece label. (Courtesy of Taiwan International Organ Transplant Care Association)
Under pressure from international accusations of live organ harvesting, in March 2010 the Chinese Communist Party claimed to have launched a pilot program for human organ donation, but in fact it was used to conceal the true source of a large number of organ donors, giving rise to the profession of human organ donor coordinator. A Liaoning organ coordinator revealed to the Epoch Times that the CCP propaganda requires “voluntary donation” through the Red Cross, but no organs are actually donated “voluntarily”; they are bought with money through coercion and inducement.
A Liaoning organ transplant coordinator, Liang Xin (a pseudonym), told the Epoch Times that for needed organs, they go to the most money-hungry person in each donor’s family to negotiate “organ donation” in order to have a high success rate.
Liang Xin’s story to the Epoch Times is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to “voluntary donation” by the Red Cross on the mainland. He said, “What the Epoch Times and New Tang Dynasty have disclosed is the use of organs from death row inmates for transplants, (which) should not be accessible to organ transplant coordinators at my level.”
“Voluntary donation” has a lot of private collusion
In 2015, China stopped using organs from death row inmates, and all organ transplants are from “voluntary donations.
“Human organ coordinators are part of the Red Cross and medical institutions, and their job is to find “voluntary donor” organs for organ transplants.
However, the work of human organ donation coordinators has been fraught with obstacles and poor organ donation channels, and “due to most people’s traditional beliefs, failed coordination was the majority in the first year,” Liu Lingli, human organ donation coordinator at West China Hospital of Sichuan University, told mainland media on April 1, 2021.
How do human organ donation coordinators “negotiate” with the families of seriously ill patients, and how do they accomplish the “voluntary organ donation” that the Chinese Communist Party boasts about? The situation has now become what it is called organ transplant coordination, but there is a lot of collusion inside this thing, and private collusion.”
ICU and others provide donor leads for a tip fee
Discovering potential organ donors (donors), contacting the donor’s family, and assisting in completing the donation is the workflow of organ transplant coordinators. A staff member of the Wuhan Red Cross Society said in a mainland media report that cases judged to be brain-dead are generally reported and evaluated, and then organ donation coordinators find their families to “negotiate” a donation.
What is the actual situation? Liang Xin said, “Many hospitals, like my previous work unit, it is and some hospital neurosurgery, neurology, ICU, emergency is linked, like providing (organ) clues, give (them) trail fee.”
He gave an example, “like emergency, received a traumatic brain injury patient emergency, probably will judge his situation, think (is) the family can not afford to cure, hurry brain death kind of situation, (emergency doctors) will contact to our department, after contact, (we) talk to the family, talk to this doctor money, like a clue fee.”
“They all know our contact information, some are this hospital to this hospital, and our hospital to other hospitals, hospitals to departments.” Liang Xin said, “I’m in Liaoning well, generally (sources) are within the three eastern provinces, or Beijing, Zhengzhou, Tianjin, places like this (to find donors).”
He explained, “The organs also need to be preserved, and it’s not good if it takes too long, so they don’t go to the southern part of the country to get them.”
Nine out of ten donors are looking for families who can’t afford to cure the disease
As for the noble profession of “life and death ferryman” touted by the mainland media, Liang Xin believes that it is actually very cruel to do that kind of work, forcing patients’ families to “donate” their loved ones’ organs. The fact is that this is all said externally, and privately they will all talk about money”.
Liang Xin did not come from a medical school, but was unemployed at the time and found a job as an organ transplant coordinator. He said, “Most of the people who do this are not medical students, there is no preparation. If you find a lot of donors, you will earn a lot, also like doing business kind of commission.”
“I only knew a general idea at the time, I didn’t know what I could do something specific, and then when I got in touch, slowly my own heart kind of accepted it.”
He said they went to the donor, are looking for family conditions are very difficult, can not afford to cure the family, nine out of ten is such a situation. The kind of people with a higher level of education may belong to those who really donate voluntarily, but when they die in their 70s or 80s, their organs are no longer usable.
What Liang Xin has encountered so far are mostly sudden brain infarction, heart attack, and brain hemorrhage donors, and the donors are usually around fifty years old. These types of diseases can save lives if resuscitated and treated in time. However, due to the medical system in mainland China, medical expenses are expensive, about 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a day for hospitalization alone, which many people cannot afford and cannot treat.
Liang Xin disclosed that the “organ donor coordinator” will be based on the donor information provided by the doctor to find his immediate family, “and the family to talk, the entry point is the issue of medical fees, because this case is negotiated, will give the family to take medical fees, medical fees are basically within 100,000, this will be given to take. “
“If we say migrant workers, a large part of it will be successful.” He said, “Find those whose family conditions are worse and poorer, (to his) 100,000 yuan just medical expenses, the Red Cross side to give the price is about 80,000 to 100,000 ranging.”
“Through this channel of the Red Cross, it is said that voluntary donation, in fact, there is no voluntary donation, are (through) coercion and inducement.” Liang Xin said, “My colleagues have said this: ‘If you don’t agree, who will take the money to see the doctor?'” And such poor families are usually in debt from borrowing money for medical care and need to pay back their debts.
Finding the most greedy one in the family to talk to will have a high success rate
“He (the organ donor coordinator) will find the greediest one in the family, the one who needs the money most urgently, and talk to him. For example, ‘The person is dying anyway, so if this money dies, you won’t get it.'” “As soon as the person is talked into it, the person will go and talk to someone in his own family.”
Liang Xin, who has encountered many such cases, told the Epoch Times about a sister he met six months ago who was greedy for money to sell her brother’s organs.
The donor was 28 years old, and the condition was a subsarcoid hemorrhage, a hemangioma that was not detected in time and was discovered too late.
Liang Xin said: “(This person) came in directly into the ICU, and then the ICU gave a quantitative electroencephalogram, the family did not know that this person was brain dead, but we have made this proof of brain death in advance.” “Because he was relatively young, his organ source was considered a particularly high-quality organ source, and he had a particularly good blood type, type O.”
After receiving news of this donor from the ICU, Liang Xin’s colleagues began contacting the donor’s family. This donor was very young, not yet married and childless, and his parents did not agree to take their son’s organs.
“But he has a sister, my colleague found his sister is very greedy, and very needy money kind, and her brother to see the doctor (spend money) are sister took.” Liang Xin said the sister needs money to pay her this debt, “colleagues and his sister to talk, his sister to see there is money to take, agreed, and then his sister went to haunt the family, to haunt her parents, said to donate something, to dedicate love, that is actually for money.”
“From the end of the first (contact the donor family) to the last day of organ harvesting, about four or five days, the four or five days of the process, you can see that his mother was very difficult inside.”
Originally negotiated with the family is to obtain a liver and two kidneys, because there is a heart transplant requires a heart, and added to obtain a heart, the donor’s mother protested: “is not a liver and two kidneys? I only agree to donate this, I only agree to donate two kinds.”
Liang Xin said, “Actually, this means of obtaining is very unseemly.”
When the sister of the donor went to reimburse the medical bills, she also thought about the money in her brother’s medical insurance card. Liang Xin said, “Even when her brother died, the money in the account was not spared. Every family (organ donation coordinator) goes to people like this to talk about (organ donation) so that the success rate will be high.”
He said, “Wanting more people to know about this, I am hoping that sacrificing one of me will wake up millions of people.”
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