Scandal in China: they denounce the execution of prisoners to sell their organs to foreigners

A former employee of the Shenyang Army General Hospital in China denounced the murder and subsequent removal of organs from a prisoner that he was in perfect health

According to the doctor, whose identity transcended that of Zheng Qiaozhi, it all started when the hospital recruited him as a member of one of his organ extraction teams. During their first intervention, a man tied to the hands and feet was brought into the operating room and the responsible physician cut him from the chest to the stomach. "Cut the veins and arteries," he then asked the detainee.

In shock, Qiaozhi obeyed and then placed the organs in a container. However, his superior he ordered him to also extract the eyes of the man. Hearing his words, the prisoner, who was still alive, looked at him terrified.

"I can not do it," replied the former employee, forcing his superior to perform the procedure with his own hands. After this episode, the doctor resigned from his position at the hospital and emigrated to Canadawhere, for fear of persecution, he badumed a new identity.

The story was published by the New York Post "rare" testimony of a hidden reality in China, where people from all over the world come to perform transplants periodically. In this sense, the media reported that the annual number of donated organs varies between 60,000 and 100,000. In addition, he attributed the value of a liver transplant to 170,000 USD and the value of A kidney at 130,000 USD.

Qiaozhi's complaint that the murdered prisoner was a "healthy young miner" sparked interest in knowing the origin of organs used in Chinese transplants. Although their origin has not been reported to patients, Ethan Gutmann, author of several books on the subject, argues that most come from the execution of prisoners.

According to Gutmann, Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline declared sectarian heretical by the Buddhists in 1999 by the party secretary at the time, Jiang Zemin, was a particularly rich source of fresh organs for the industry transplants from China. According to the author, hundreds of thousands, even millions of followers of the group have been arrested since and disappeared in a vast network of secret prisons.

Thanks to the new extracorporeal membrane oxygenation system (ECMO), it is possible to extract all the organs of a person, which was impossible twenty years ago.

However, Chinese government statistics indicate that transplants in the country they are made only with the approval of the living donor, and that in 2018, only about 6,000 occurred, a figure far from those reported by the New York Post.

Another fact that the media raise as suspicious is the delay in waiting to receive a Chinese organ. In the United Kingdom, this type of procedure takes about three years and in Canada, six years, in the east of the country, it takes a few weeks or even a few days. In fact some patients reported having surgery before they arrived.