At least eight organ transplant specialists in China died in 2023. Six were eminent physicians in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and several were suspected of involvement in forced organ harvesting. Their deaths highlight China’s burgeoning transplant industry, which is accused of using persecuted groups such as Falun Gong as living organ banks.
On March 7, He Jieqing, former director of the urology department of Jiangxi Provincial People’s Hospital and a CCP member, died in the hospital where she had worked at the age of 85.
He Jieqing was born in 1938, graduated from medical school in 1961 and was assigned to Jiangxi Hospital, where she worked in both general surgery and urology surgery, becoming the director of urology at the hospital in 1986. During her long career, she was the recipient of many awards, a member of the International Society of Urology, and a governing member of the Jiangxi Provincial Medical Association….