Birmingham Hospital Conducts Kidney Transplant (Photo : Getty Images)
Another case of illegal organ harvesting was reported in China after Epoch Times questioned in February the source of 1,600 liver transplants done in a top Chinese hospital over a 13-year period.
The South China Morning Post reported on Friday that Liu Yongwei, a farmer from Suzhou, Anhui Province, was involved in a vehicular crash in June 2015. He was hospitalized at an affiliate of the Xuzhou Medical College in Jiangsu Province for treatment of multiple fractures and chest injuries.
The farmer had chest surgery to bring back the organs to their right position displaced by the accident. According to hospital records, the surgeon removed his right kidney, but after checking that it was not damaged, claimed to have returned the organ.
Before Liu was discharged from the hospital, he had to undergo another procedure for infected tissues. After two and a half months, the farmer went to Hefei City to have more treatments, but doctors said his right kidney is missing based on CT scans performed in three hospitals.
Liu asked for the help of authorities, but nothing happened. Now, the hospitals are even refusing the man treatment because of his missing organ. The Xuzhou government said the incident is under investigation, but hospital officials are now saying his missing right kidney was probably naturally decayed, hinting it was actually removed.
According to an Australian documentary, government hospitals kill prisoners and then harvest their organs for transplantation. Although there are few people on China’s organ donor register, annually, 10,000 organ transplant procedures are done across the nation every year, reported Punchng.
