Five members of the "Committee to Investigate the Facts" of organ-harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China went to the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. to apply for visas to investigate the situation.
Falun Dafa Association and Clearwisdom.net initiated the Committee on April 4. On April 14, a group of U.S. consulate and embassy officials in China visited the facilities at Sujiatun on a tour arranged by the Chinese government, and did not find any evidence of killing or organ harvesting. Their tour highlighted the need for genuinely independent investigation.
Dr. Sherry Zhang, spokesperson for the Committee, said that if the Chinese Communist Party said they welcomed investigation by the international community, then Falun Gong practitioners, who have first-hand information, should be the most qualified to investigate. The CCP does not have any excuse to deny the investigators' visa request. On April 11, the Committee published a list of labor camps, hospitals and prisons for evidence collection. This list will be the starting point of the investigations.
Since April 13, when The Epoch Times published an article about hospitals in mainland China speeding up organ transplants and intending to "destroy all evidence" by May 1, The Epoch Times received many letters from China. One person wrote, "They are suddenly doing a lot more transplants. At first I couldn't believe it, but I just heard that in Beijing University Hospital's Third Urology Division alone, there will be 10 kidney transplants next week. It's inconceivable. Where do they find so many donors?"
Also, The Epoch Times received reports on three hospitals in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province that are doing kidney transplants. The three hospitals are Dongguan People's Hospital, Tongji Medical University Urology Hospital, and Dongguan Taiping People's Hospital.
A relatively low number of transplants have been done at the first two hospitals, due to the lack of organ sources. Taiping People's Hospital, on the other hand, has had an abundance of organs. Because of "attention and care by the leadership," over 1,000 kidney transplants have been completed at the hospital, making it one of the highest in China in the number of transplants. Taiping People's Hospital began conducting organ transplants in 1999. Most of the patients have been from foreign countries. The doctors are retired surgeons from Zhujiang Hospital in Guangdong Province. Sometimes these doctors also travel to Shenzhen Para-Military Hospital to conduct organ transplants. In 2003 alone, 360 kidney transplants were conducted at the hospital. In 2004 and 2005, 260 and 160 transplants were conducted, respectively. In the first three months of 2006, there were over 300 kidney transplants at the hospital.
In addition to above information, one source from Shandong Province wrote, "The Qianfoshan Hospital of Jinan City, Shandong Province, located at 66 Jingshi Street, and the Shandong Provincial Police Officers' General Hospital (nicknamed Labor Camp Hospital), at 134 Yingxiongshan Street, Jinan City, have both been involved in organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners. They did so with explicit permission from the CCP Central and with full participation of the staff."
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