Doctors perform a kidney transplant at a hospital in Madrid, Spain, Feb. 28, 2017.
Chen Jingyu, a deputy to the National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China (NPC), who was the “first person to have a lung transplant in China,” proposed that the organ donation rate be made a “criterion for the assessment of civilized cities. When the proposal was reported, it was immediately condemned and questioned by the public.
At the two sessions of the Chinese Communist Party, Chen Jing Yu, a deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC) and vice president of Wuxi People’s Hospital, submitted a proposal to include organ donation rates in the assessment criteria for civilized cities.
According to Chen, China has a large population and a huge number of patients, and the problem of serious organ shortage still exists. Currently, there are about 300,000 patients in China who need transplants due to end-stage organ failure each year, but only 10,000 or so have access to organ transplants, a supply to demand ratio of 1:30.
The National health Care Commission of the Communist Party of China has made “organ donation” a part of the assessment of the third-rate hospitals. Chen declared that the assessment is not universal to all hospitals, and that “the promotion of organ donation by local governments is essential in order to form a society-wide atmosphere for organ donation.
Chen suggested that the organ donation rate should be one of the criteria for the assessment of a civilized city.
As soon as Chen’s comments were reported, a wave of condemnation and questions from netizens immediately arose.
They said, “No human talk!” “This is a matter of citizens’ voluntary or not, and once it is included in the assessment, it becomes tasteless.”
Some netizens pointed out, “You have to donate when necessary.” “It’s hard not to donate.”
Some netizens also condemned people like Chen Jingyu, who “had to be shot with aerial bullets, 88mm caliber, with a big hole in a bucket.”
Behind “China’s first lung transplant” no shortage of organs
Chen Jingyu is said to be the “first person in China to have a lung transplant”. According to an article published by the mainland media in March 2018, Chen Jing Yu has been the first lung transplant surgeon in China since September 28, 2002, and he and his team are said to have performed 70% of all lung transplants in China, leading the team to the world’s top three “lung transplant centers”.
Despite the severe shortage of organ donations on the mainland, Chen performed three consecutive lung transplants in Beijing in just four days, from March 3 to 7, during the Communist Party’s two sessions in 2018, averaging almost one per day.
The reporter also previously found from Chen’s past microblogs that the lung sources needed for organ transplants at Chen’s Wuxi People’s Hospital were almost always available upon request. The vice president also said that after the cancellation of death row donors, it is now busier than ever, doing one organ transplant in three days.
Chen Jing Yu told the mainland media on March 1, 2020, that lung transplants are routine, and that she had done one in two or three days, having previously completed more than 1,000 lung transplants.
However, Wang Zhiyuan, who was a medical researcher at Harvard University, said that the most developed organ transplant in the world, the United States, such large organ transplants generally have to wait 2 to 3 years. The lung transplant by Chen’s team was an emergency transplant, and the organ came in surprisingly fast; the process of finding the organ, matching the organ and getting the organ took only 3 or 4 days, which was out of the norm.
Many reports have previously suggested that this is because the Chinese Communist Party officially has a large donor pool of living organs that can be harvested at any Time.
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