Evidence Suggests China Has a Large Live Organ Bank

(Clearwisdom.net) On January 31, Canadian investigators David Kilgour and David Matas published the revised version of their report on organ harvesting claims. Entitled, "Bloody Harvest - Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China", the revised report expanded the previous 18 considerations to 33, which collectively confirmed allegations that China has a large live organ bank and the victims are mostly illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners.

Astonishingly Short Waiting Time Suggests a Large Live Organ Bank

Below are the latest supporting materials published at minghui.ca (the Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net):

Shenyang Army General Hospital: Short organ waiting time, and transplant operations can be performed within several days after initial diagnosis. Reportedly, the hospital performed 19 transplant operations recently in just a few days.

Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital: On average, the hospital has been performing one or more heart transplant operations per day. The hospital can also perform kidney transplant operations.

Shijiazhuang People's Hospital: Reportedly, the hospital's executive deputy director Zhen Zhimin once performed 5 kidney transplant operations in 10 hours. Currently, the hospital is preparing to open a branch office at Wuji County and the person in charge is Zhen Zhimin. It has been verified that the hospital had access to a large live organ source last year.

According to the Kilgour and Matas report, the China International Transplantation Assistance Centre website says, "It may take only one week to find out the suitable (kidney) donor, the maximum time being one month... If something wrong with the donor's organ happens, the patient will have the option to be offered another organ donor and have the operation again in one week."

Considering the fact that organ waiting time in other countries is typically far more than a year, Kilgour and Matas stated in their report: "The astonishingly short waiting times advertised for perfectly-matched organs would suggest the existence of a large bank of live prospective 'donors'."

Large Number of Illegally Detained Falun Gong Practitioners Unwillingly Become Organ Sources

The Kilgour and Matas report examined past and future transplant organ sources and concluded that a large number of illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners have unwillingly become organ sources. For example, from 2000 to 2005 (the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999), there were 41,500 organs with unexplained sources. Regarding this issue, the two investigators stated: "The allegation of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners provides an answer."

The revised report also included concrete evidence to show that the total number of organ transplant centers and hospitals dramatically increased after the persecution of Falun Gong began. "There were only 22 liver transplant centres operating across China before 1999 and 500 in mid-April, 2006. The number of kidney transplantation institutions increased from 106 in 2001 to 368 in 2005.

"The Chinese authorities, to build these dedicated organ transplant institutions, must have the confidence that there exists now and into the foreseeable future a ready source of organs from people who are alive now and will be dead tomorrow. Who are these people? A large prison population of Falun Gong practitioners provides an answer." The report stated.