One of the largest cases of illegal transplantation and organ trading in the country: a live person is kept in captivity to get a kidney, and the chief physician becomes an accomplice

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I. Organ trading: captive kidneys from living people, chief physicians become accomplices

01, buy doctors from tertiary hospitals, sell kidneys for profit

Zheng Wei, 46, is the organizer of this group, and since 2007, when he was looking for kidney sources for his relatives, he found it a profitable "business".

The two of them are "in cahoots" and are in contact with the director of the urology department of a tertiary hospital in Beijing.

Ye said Zheng Wei was a hospital staff member and identified the tertiary hospital as a kidney transplant implementation site, and began organizing staff. Zheng Wei met Zhou Peng, a doctor from Yanglou Town Health Center in Xiao County, Anhui Province, Zhao Jian, a doctor from Xuzhou Maternal and Child Health Hospital, and Yang Guozhong, vice president of the Second People's Hospital in Tongshan County, Xuzhou City, to perform the surgery.

Zhou Peng illegally performed dozens of human kidney removal surgeries at the behest of Zheng Wei. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.

Usually he schedules the surgery on Monday and Wednesday nights, and it's over in an hour. After it's over, the kidney organs are packed into incubators, shipped to Beijing, and arrived at a tertiary hospital by 7 a.m. Thereafter, he charged the patient for the kidney source and then contacted to arrange for the patient's kidney transplant to be performed at that tertiary hospital.

02, build a black hospital, captive live kidney extraction

The team is available, where do the donors come from? According to the police investigation, they mainly attract targets by posting false advertisements on the Internet.

The ads appear in the form of "request" or "request for donation", claiming that they or their friends or relatives have serious kidney disease and need kidney transplantation, and are willing to pay high fees to donors, and provide information about regular hospitals, professional doctors, safe surgery, etc. . Out of the lure of money, many people fell for it.

How did the criminal gang perform the kidney removal and transplant surgery?

Initially they took a lease from the Spark Community Health Service Center in Quanshan District, Xuzhou City, a small, rudimentary clinic with no formal operating room or equipment, and no qualified doctors or nurses. They were unconcerned about the donor's physical condition and the risks of surgery, as long as the kidney could be successfully removed.

Later, Zheng Wei decided to set up a kidney removal operating room in Beijing, considering the risks of long-distance transportation and kidney preservation. He rented a small four-story building in Haidian District, where he fed and housed the donors, and bought some medical equipment one after another, turning the place into a black hospital, which was so dirty and disorganized that it didn't even have a single piece of resuscitation equipment.

03. The ugly truth was exposed and the main culprit was sentenced

The truth began with a traffic accident that accidentally uncovered a major criminal case involving the sale of human organs. At the time, the driver, Zheng Wei, was carrying a large amount of cash and medical equipment, as well as a holding tank containing a human kidney that had just been removed.

The paper couldn't hold fire. A donor named Liu Yongdong, attracted by the advertisement, was tricked into having his kidney removed by Zheng Wei. Although he was paid 20,000 after the operation, his health was deteriorating and he felt cheated but didn't dare to report it to the police.

Until one day a stranger on the street called, claiming to be a reporter whether the cause provides clues. After repeated attempts, Liu Yongdong finally told the truth.

The real identity of this "journalist" is actually a police officer, who found Liu Yongdong while investigating this criminal gang and contacted him posing as a journalist.

According to the information provided by Liu Yongdong, the police soon arrested Zheng Wei, Ye Mou and other people involved in the case. According to Article 336 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, Zheng Wei was sentenced to 12 years in prison and others to prison terms ranging from three and a half to nine years.

II. Where do all the donated organs go after a person dies?

Except for some illegal organ trading transactions, where do donated organs generally go when a human donor passes away?

To keep the organs active, they need to be removed, cryo-irrigated, and cold perfused within one hour to 30 minutes.

includes corneas, skin, bones, blood vessels, liver, kidneys, etc.

Lowering the organ temperature to about 4°C, prolonging the ischemic tolerance time of the isolated organ, and removing immunoreactive cells from the organ blood using a cytomimetic lavage solution.

Simple cooling and application of metabolic inhibitors to reduce isolated organ metabolism.

For organ donation, some people may wonder why patients are charged to receive a transplant when it is clear that donation is free.

With the above steps, it is clear that the organ transplant donation process is costly in many ways, including human costs, social costs, transportation costs, and preservation costs, all of which incur costs.

It can be argued that there is no cost to the organ itself, but only the cost of testing, surgery, and preservation, which gives the organ a "price.

The illegal sale of human organs is an extremely serious crime that undermines the legal order of human organ donation and transplantation and interferes with the fair distribution of medical resources, which is a crime that cannot be punished!