The sheer number of child organs available for transplant in China is staggering.
An investigator from the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong made a phone call to a hospital in northern China’s Jilin Province in 2017. The investigator posed as the family member of a sick child, and inquired about a public campaign that advertised free liver transplants to the first ten children who applied.
The director of the hospital’s Pediatric Surgery Department confirmed the offer.
In 2022, the Union Hospital in the city of Wuhan performed heart transplants on three children with heart failure—all in just one day. The organs came from three different provinces, and all of them arrived in Wuhan on the same day. For this to have been possible, three child organ donors would have had to die at the same time—with their hearts coincidentally proving to be successful matches for the recipients. The odds of such an unlikely coincidence occurring would be virtually incalculable.
Organ donation usually follows the accidental death of a donor—something rare and unpredictable. In this case, however, three deaths among children with matching organs all occurred on the very same day.