Hospital: Affiliated Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (the “Wuhan Union Hospital”)
Address: 1277 Jiefang Ave, Wuhan, China
Preface
Wuhan Union Hospital is one of the largest kidney transplant centers in the central south area as well as the national cardiac transplant center with a large scale of transplants. It provided four heart donors in 10 days for one patient in June 2020[1]. According to a Minghui.org report with a quote from an elder man in China, Wuhan Union Hospital still engaged in live organ harvesting from so-called “death-row-inmates” in September 2016 [2]. Upon the massive scheme of the CCP’s state crime of live organ harvesting, this hospital is obviously suspected of involvement with the alleged live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners.
Ⅰ. Hospital Profile
Wuhan Union Hospital is a tertiary level-A hospital. The hospital houses 5,800 licensed beds and consists of 4 campuses: the Main Campus, the West Campus, the Tumor Center Campus and the Jinyinhu International Hospital. Its cardiac transplant is ranked first in China for 5 years in a row.
It hires over 8000 employees including over 600 high-ranking officials. Besides, it has one key laboratory authorized by the Ministry of Education, one key laboratory by the Ministry of Health and two laboratories by Hubei province. It also got more than 100 grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China for five consecutive years[3].
Ⅱ. One of the biggest kidney transplant centers in South Central China
The Wuhan Union Hospital performed the first kidney transplant surgery in South Central China in 1977. Over thirty-four years, the hospital acquired abundant theoretical knowledge as well as clinical experience in the field and got the kidney transplant qualification in 2007. It has become one of the biggest kidney transplant centers in the region.[5]
Ⅲ. National heart transplant center
The hospital claimed it had performed the most heart transplants in China in 2014 and had performed four heart transplants simultaneously at the same day in 2013.[6]According to the report of Wuhan Evening News, the cardiac surgery program at Wuhan Union Hospital completed 102 heart transplants in 2015, which showed its leading status of transplant technique in China. [7]
The heart transplant at Wuhan Union Hospital developed rapidly after 2008. It completed 428 heart transplants from September 2008 to April 30, 2017. The annual heart transplant was over one hundred cases in 2016 and 2017. [8]
According to the www.cjn.cn article by Huang Jin and Wu Wei on December 15, 2015, the total heart transplant at Wuhan Union Hospital ranked first in the country. Dong Nianguo, director of the Cardiac Surgery Program at Wuhan Union Hospital, said Wuhan had been the national hearts transplant center. [9]
Ⅳ. Performed four heart transplants simultaneously
This hospital set a record by performing four heart transplants simultaneously at the same day in 2013. [10] On August 6, 2020 10 o’clock to 24 o’clock, Dong Nianguo, director of Cardiac Surgery at Wuhan Union Hospital, and professor Xia Jiahong led a medical team of over 200 people to complete four heart transplants successfully within 14 hours of the same day. [11]
Ⅴ. Provided a patient with four heart donors in 10 days[12]
A 24-year-old Miss Sun, who was from Weihai, Shandong, and worked in Japan, looked for a heart transplant. Since the wait time for a heart donor would be more than three years in Japan, she returned to China in mid-June 2020. The lead surgeon for her cardiac transplant was Dong Nianguo, director of Cardiac Surgery and Director of the Organ Transplant Center at Wuhan Union Hospital.
Four matching hearts were in place in 10 days. The first matching heart was ready on June 16 and came from Wuhan. The surgeon gave up this heart after an assessment of coronary artery condition.
The second matching heart was found in Hunan province three days later. On June 25, another two matching hearts came with one from a Wuhan female and the other one from a Guangzhou male. According to the official media, they chose the male’s heart.
She recovered well after seven hours long operation.
Investigation Recording 1
Subject(s): Dong Nianguo, Director of Organ Transplant Center, Wuhan Union Hospital
Date: February 9, 2016 （+86-13971181551）
Summary:
- It should be a better timing now because we have basically done all recipients this year.
- We have done over ten cases this year, got to do it tomorrow, one more case tomorrow.
- We had done one hundred cases last year, more than one hundred.
Investigation Recording 2
Subject(s): Nurse, Inpatient Service Unit of Cardiac Surgery, Wuhan Union Hospital
Date: June 30, 2020 （+86-2785351610）
Summary:
- She got the surgery already. Her surgery was not in our unit but ICU.
- She has been in ICU all the way, not from our unit to the operation room and then back to ICU.
- If her condition is stable, it depends, she might be transferred out.
Ⅵ. Minghui.org: Live organ harvesting still happening at Wuhan Union Hospital
According to Minghui.org, an elderly man in Mainland China reported his relative spent around 400,000 to 500,000 yuan to get kidney transplant at Wuhan Union Hospital in September 2016. The hospital didn’t disclose details of the donor and only mentioned the “death-row-inmate” was about 20 to 30 years old. It emphasized the donor was very fit, very healthy and very good quality of such kidney source. The patient was discharged but didn’t recover well. [13]
VII. List of Responsible People
HZKJ-XH001 Dong Nianguo, male, DOB: September 1963, Place of birth: Ezhou, Hubei[14]
Personal Profile: Director of Cardiovascular Surgery and Director of Organ Transplant Center, Wuhan Union Hospital; Chief Physician; Vice Chairman, Organ Transplant sub-association and Cardiac Lung Transplant sub-association, Chinese Medical Association (CMA); Vice Chairman, Provincial Society of Organ Transplant, Hubei Medical Association; Studied in the US and Switzerland.
Operated the first combined heart-lung transplant in the country, first stage correction of complex heart deformities, first stage correction of twin pulmonary atresia, and the cardiac transplant for the youngest (3-month-old) and oldest (76 years old) patient in the country. Operated four heart transplants simultaneously at the same day; successful treatment of complex congenital cardiac surgery for infants and young children with postoperative ECMO support for 13 days. [15]
HZKJ-XH002 Zeng Fuqing, male
Personal Profile: Professor of Urologic Surgery, Chief Physician, doctoral instructor, Director of Urologic Surgery Institute.
Engaged in the clinical and research of Urologic surgery for almost 40 years; developed kidney transplants; [16]
HZKJ-XH003 Li Heng, male
Personal Profile: Chief Physician, Associate Professor, master instructor, Associate Director of Organ Transplant Center; Commissioner, Chinese Society of Organ Transplantation, Chinese Medical Association (CMA); Commissioner, Provincial Society of Organ Transplant\, Hubei Medical Association.
Graduated from Tongji Medical College in 1990; PhD of Medicine, 1996; worked at school since graduation.
Main field: kidney transplant. [17]
HZKJ-XH004 Wang Zhendi, male
Personal Profile: Attending Physician of Urologic Surgery, instructor
Engaged in Urologic Surgery, the clinical work of kidney transplants, and postoperative care of
combinations associated with kidney transplants. [18]
HZKJ-XH005 Wang Jing, male
Personal Profile: Associate Professor of Kidney Transplant Center, Associate Chief Physician
Graduated from Tongji Medical University in 1992; have engaged in Urologic Surgery and clinical work of kidney transplant since graduation. [19]
HZKJ-XH006 Zhang Shilong, male
Personal Profile: Attending Physician of Kidney Transplant Center
Engaged in kidney transplant and clinical work of Urologic Surgery for years. [20]
HZKJ-XH007 Xia Wei, male
Personal Profile: Resident Physician of Kidney Transplant Center
Engaged in kidney transplant, clinical work of Urologic Surgery and postoperative care of combinations associated with kidney transplant for years. [21]
HZKJ-XH008 Wu Yu, male
Personal Profile: Resident Physician of Kidney Transplant Center
Engaged in kidney transplant, clinical work of Urologic Surgery and postoperative care of combinations associated with kidney transplant for years. [22]
HZKJ-XH009 Bai Yang, male
Personal Profile: Resident Physician, Kidney Transplant Center
Engaged in kidney transplant, clinical work of Urologic Surgery and postoperative care of combinations associated with kidney transplant for years. [23]
HZKJ-XH010 Zhang Runqing, male
Personal Profile: Professor of Urologic Surgery, Chief Physician
The research focused on kidney transplant on the basis of general urology. [24]
HZKJ-XH011 Yang Jun, male
Personal Profile: Associate Professor of Urologic Surgery, Associate Chief Physician
Bachelor of Medicine, Tongji Medical University, 1995; PhD of Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2001; helped to develop related surgeries in over 30 hospitals in and around Hubei province; postdoctoral research on obstructive nephropathy and study of organ transplant at Department of Medicine-Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, Huston, Texas from April 2011. [25]
HZKJ-XH012 Zheng Qichang, male
Personal Profile: Chief Physician, Professor, Director of Hepatological Surgery Center
Committed to the basic and clinical research of biomaterials in organ transplant in recent years, specializing in liver transplant. [26]
HZKJ-XH013 Xiong Jun, male
Personal Profile: Associate Chief Physician of Hepatological Surgery Program, Associate Professor
Graduated from Department of Medicine, Tongji Medical University, 1994; engaged in clinical work of Hepatological Surgery; PhD, 2005; postdoctoral research for 2 years at Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou.
Engaged in organ extraction for liver transplant and perioperative management for recipients after operation; major participant to complete the first national combined heart-liver transplant, which was also the third case in Asia. [27]
HZKJ-XH014 Wang Chunyou, male
Personal Profile: Chief Physician, Professor, Director of Pancreatic Surgery, Director of General Surgery
Engaged in clinical work and research of General Surgery for over 20 years.
Studied in UMC, USA, 1992 ~ 1995.
Engaged in Pancreatic Program in recent 10 years; established the Pancreatic Surgery Research and Treatment Center and Pancreatic Surgery ICU; developed research of pancreatic transplant and islet stem cell transplant. [28]
HZKJ-XH015 Zhang Kailun, male
Personal Profile: Chief Physician of Cardiovascular Surgery, Professor
Visiting physician and visiting scholar at German Heart Center Munich as well as Heart and Diabetes Center, Bad Oeynhausen, University Hospitals of the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany; outstanding in heart transplant. [29]
HZKJ-XH016 Liu Jinping, male
Personal Profile: Associate Professor and Associate Chief Physician of Cardiovascular Surgery, Director of Organ Transplant Program, Wuhan Union Hospital; Commissioner, Thoracic Surgery and Organ Transplant Association, Wuhan; Secretary, Thoracic Surgery Association, Hubei Province; award winner of Earl Bakken Scholarship, Chinese Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
Graduated from Tongji Medical University, 1997; studied in Australia, 2004; studied in University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2008~2010; developed heart transplant; major participant of heart transplant. [30]
HZKJ-XH017 Shi Jiawei, female
Personal Profile: Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, Associate Chief Physician
Graduated from Tongji Medical University; PhD of Medicine, 2006;
Studied in Massachusetts General Hospital, 2008; studied in Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 2014; in-depth research in heart and lung transplant; engaged in clinical work of cardiac surgery over 10 years. [31]
HZKJ-XH018 Xiao Shiliang, male
Personal Profile: Professor, Chief Physician, Associate Director of Cardiovascular Surgery
Committed to clinical work and basic research of cardiac surgery; outstanding in heart transplant. [32]
HZKJ-XH019 Sun Zongquan, male
Personal Profile: Chief Physician of Cardiovascular Surgery, Professor
Former member of a standing committee, Thoracic Surgery sub-association, Chinese Medical Association (CMA); Director of Cardiovascular Institute, Wuhan Union Hospital; Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Wuhan Union Hospital
Outstanding in heart transplant; completed the first combined heart-lung transplant at Wuhan Union Hospital. [33]
HZKJ-XH020 Li Jinsong, male
Personal Profile: Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Associate Chief Physician
Graduated from Tongji Medical University, 1991; has worked at Wuhan Union Hospital since graduation; PhD, 1998; a postdoctoral study in University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 2004~2005;
He developed a new technology of lung transplant; committed to lung transplant and basic and applied research on lung volume reduction. [34]
HZKJ-XH021 Jiang Ke, male
Personal Profile: Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Associate Chief Physician
Good at lung transplant. [35]
HZKJ-XH022 Wang Jianjun, male
Personal Profile: Director of Thoracic Surgery, Professor, Chief Physician
Graduated from Department of Medicine, Hebei Medical University; master, Peking Union Medical College, since 1990; Associate Dean, Director of Thoracic Surgery, Director of Clinical Medicine Institute, Professor, Chief Physician, Hebei General Hospital, 2000; dispatched to Thoracic Surgery Program at Wuhan Union Hospital in 2001;
A postdoctoral study from 1994 to 1999 in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University; The Center for MR Education, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine;
Developed lung transplant and combined heart-lung transplant. [36]
HZKJ-XH023 Zhang Mingchang, male
Personal Profile: Director of ophthalmology, Chief Physician, Professor
The first to develop full-thickness lamellar keratoplasty to treat deep corneal opacity in the province and avoid the rejection and complications associated with a corneal transplant. [37]
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