Doctors at World Transplant Congress Condemn China’s Live Organ Harvesting

(Minghui.org) The 2025 World Transplant Congress was held on August 2 in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Thousands of transplant surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and organ procurement personnel attended the annual meeting. Falun Dafa practitioners gathered outside the venue during the event to tell the medical professionals how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) systemically harvests organs from living Falun Dafa practitioners who refuse to renounce their faith.

Falun Dafa practitioners held up banners outside the World Transplant Congress venue on August 3, 2025.

A doctor at the congress signed the petition demanding that the CCP stop harvesting organs from living Falun Dafa practitioners.

A practitioner (left) tells two women in the medical field about the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.

Quite a few doctors attending the congress raised their thumbs to express their support for the practitioners holding banners. One of them said, “I’m very glad that you are here to tell everyone about the atrocity of live organ harvesting.”

A doctor from Argentina said, “Live organ harvesting is very cruel, we know. I support you.” A doctor from Ecuador said, “Thank you for telling us about this. Live organ harvesting is wrong.” A Russian doctor told a practitioner, “Organ transplants are meant to save people, not kill them.”

Deputy Director of DAFOH: The CCP Weaponizes Organ Transplants

Dr. Weldon Gilcrease wanted the doctors at the meeting to understand the dark side of live organ harvesting in China.

Dr. Weldon Gilcrease, M.D., is an associate professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine and also the deputy director of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH). He flew from Utah to San Francisco to inform more doctors at the congress about the CCP’s criminal organ harvesting practices. “Many doctors and the organ transplant industry know very little about the CCP’s unethical organ procurement methods, especially its crimes of killing people for their organs,” he said.

According to Dr. Gilcrease, only about five to ten percent of all physicians, nurses, and social workers know about the forced organ harvesting taking place in China today. He said, “The CCP has weaponized organ transplantation to eradicate Falun Dafa practitioners. We are here today to help doctors involved in organ transplants learn the facts of what’s happening in China. We hope that they can stand up to help stop the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners and the Uyghurs in China.”

DAFOH Representative Explains the CCP’s Crimes of Live Organ Harvesting

Dr. Dana Churchill, DAFOH delegate for U.S. West Coast, said that many doctors support the organization’s goals.

Dr. Dana Churchill, N.M.D., DAFOH delegate for the U.S. West Coast, came from Los Angeles to tell people about the ongoing organ harvesting crimes taking place in China. “We hope that the doctors at the meeting can learn more about what is happening in China regarding forced organ harvesting and help stop it. Most of the doctors support our goals,” he said.

One doctor told him, “We need to solve the issue. I support what you do.” Dr. Churchill said, “We should tell the American universities not to help China train their transplant surgeons. We should also ban those who commit crimes of live organ harvesting from entering the United States.”

Russian Doctor: Organs Transplants are Meant to Save People not Kill Them

Dr. Boris Jaramin from Russia (left) said that the international community should help end forced organ harvesting from living people.

Dr. Boris Jaramin from Russia already knew about Falun Dafa. He said, “I think everyone should abide by the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. I support the practitioners’ rights to their belief.”

Dr. Jaramin has never been to China, but he knows many people who have gone to China for organ transplants. He believes that there is no transparency in China’s organ transplant industry. “I’ve been to several organ transplant conferences and read about this issue, so I know about the CCP’s crimes of forced organ harvesting,” he said.

“The international community must do something about it and stop live organ harvesting. Organ transplants are meant to save people, not kill them.”

Doctor from Japan: Forced Organ Harvesting Must End

Dr. Shingo (left) from Japan said that he never recommends that his patients go to China for an organ transplant.

Dr. Shingo from Japan said that forced organ harvesting “should be stopped because it’s illegal.”

“I have a patient who went to China and paid for a kidney transplant. It only took him a couple of weeks to get one and return to Japan. It’s terrifying and dangerous, and must be stopped. I would never recommend that people in Japan go to China for organ transplants. When I first heard about live organ harvesting, I was stunned. It must be stopped.”

He said that in Japan, if someone wanted to donate his organ to a relative, the process would take six months. The average waiting period to get an organ from a brain dead donor is ten years.

When asked how he would help stop the crime of live organ harvesting, he said that he would lecture his students on the atrocity.

American Scientist: Live Organ Harvesting is an Atrocity

Ivan said he thought that the CCP was “corrupt” and therefore capable of committing such a heinous crime.

Ivan at the World Transplant Congress was stunned to hear about the CCP’s crimes against humanity. He said, “The CCP shouldn’t harvest organs from living people. In the United States it is not allowed, but I believe that it is happening in China right now.

“It can be summarized in one word, and that is ‘atrocity.’ The CCP is very corrput, it also tortures the Uyghurs.”

Indian Transplant Surgeon: Live Organ Harvesting is Illegal

Dr. Swara Kkam (left) from India said that the Chinese doctors who have removed organs by force have committed a crime.

Dr. Swara Kkam from India went over to the practitioners who were holding the banner that read “Stop Killing Falun Gong Practitioners in China for Their Organs” and straightened it. He said that he’s done three thousand kidney transplant surgeries, all of which had to go through an approval process. “It is illegal for Chinese doctors to remove organs without the donor’s consent.” 

He said that the donors must agree to the organ transplants, or at least their families have to. “It’s an essential step, and I know that they don’t do it in China.”

Nurse from Canada: Transplant Surgeries Must be Ethical

Braedon Mandtler from Canada is a registered nurse responsible for post-transplant care. He said the healthcare industry in Canada, like that in the United States, believes that organ transplant surgeries must be ethical.

Mandtler said that many doctors have not yet realized that forced organ harvesting is taking place today. “I believe that it is the responsibility of the medical professionals to pay attention to this unethical conduct. It is very important to let the public know what is happening. We should publicize the facts about this atrocity and put a stop to it.”