Three days passed quickly.
The two groups led by Lu Chuan have been investigating in Ping'an County for three days.
Through some clues that Li Donglin had already grasped in advance, Lu Chuan and the others quickly got to the point of their work here.
At present, we have a general range of statistics on the relevant groups of people.
At the same time, a more detailed investigation was conducted on the National Health Commission’s reliance on abnormal medical data.
At present, based on the existing investigation results, some situations can already be determined.
Lu Chuan and others temporarily rented a factory here in Ping'an County as an office location.
The factory is relatively remote and there is no cover around it, so the safety is relatively high.
Beside the simple desk, Lu Chuan and the others were studying the current situation.
Chen Jiang is reporting some of his findings.
"In the past two days, I have arranged for a group of people to conduct visits and investigations at the People's Hospital."
According to the information given by Li Donglin, data from the National Health Commission shows that all abnormalities at the Ping'an County People's Hospital are The hospital with the largest amount of data in the data.
“Because Ping’an County People’s Hospital is a county-level hospital, many departments are not as detailed as those in tertiary hospitals. There is no separate department for kidney disease.”
The hospital doesn’t even have a so-called The Department of Cardiology and Cardiology Surgery basically have two departments with more people, one is Internal Medicine and the other is Surgery.
In addition to these two, there are andrology and gynecology.
"We focused on the investigation of internal medicine."
Chen Jiang made a lot of preparations before conducting a survey of the hospital.
Through the existing information, Chen Jiang and the others first found a patient with missing kidneys.
Lu Chuan has also seen this person. As a man with the experience of looking first, Lu Chuan just took a look at the scar on the left side of the knife and knew what was going on.
The incisions used to remove kidneys from living bodies and to remove kidney lesions are different.
From the perspective of medical wounds, the wounds for resection of kidney lesions are generally relatively small.
Because it has been determined that the kidney needs to be removed, there is no need for special protection after the kidney is removed, just take it out.
But it is not possible to remove the kidney from a living body. The incision to remove the kidney from a living body is very long and arc-shaped. This is because it is necessary to ensure that the kidney cannot be damaged during the removal process, so this requires that the window must be large enough. OK.
But this person asked why his kidneys were missing. He died because he had kidney disease and had his kidneys removed.
Chen Jiang and the others did not press the other party too much, for fear of arousing the other party's vigilance. They just said that they also wanted to find some ways.
However, he didn't know much about the situation here and was rather scared, so he gave the other party 500 yuan and asked Chen Jiang and others to pretend to be his relatives and friends and follow him when he went to the hospital for follow-up.
The other party agreed when he saw that he had five hundred yuan.
“From what we have learned so far, it is certain that this hospital is the source of kidney removal from living subjects, and Hu is one of the sources.”
Chen Jiang sent people When we learned about it in the past, we connected it through the person whose kidney had been removed and the doctor who saw the patient.
Talked about his desire for money.
"But the other party didn't agree immediately. He still said that he needed to do some tests." "I think the other party may be looking for a match."
It does not mean that everyone has the After treatment, other people who are sick can use it. This also involves rejection, so the kidneys need to be matched.
In addition to the survey results from the hospital, Lu Chuan also conducted interviews and surveys in person, and made some great progress.
According to traditional calculations from the currently known people whose kidneys were removed from living bodies, there are about 19 people.
These people live in remote rural areas and have relatively difficult living conditions.
When asked normally, these people always said that they had kidney removal surgery because of their illness, but in fact, after Lu Chuan used some methods, many people suffered from some problems.
These people sell their kidneys for money, so they are naturally short of money.
It just so happened that Lu Chuan was the one least in need of money.
Of course Lu Chuan paid for this money himself. If he went back to reimburse it, it would definitely be impossible, but in order to solve the case, Lu Chuan didn't care too much.
"What is certain now is that there is a gray industry chain for the sale and purchase of living kidneys in Ping'an County."
7 of the 19 people were met and contacted by Lu Chuan, and after giving them some money Basically, they said that they didn’t have kidney disease at all, they just sold their kidneys.
“One hundred thousand yuan a piece.”
This is the result of Lu Chuan’s investigation in the past three days.
Under normal circumstances, the cost of a general kidney transplant operation is about 300,000, which mainly includes some surgical fees, examination fees, and the most important point, the compensation fee for nephrons.
From the perspective of physiological necessity, only one of the two kidneys can meet the body's demand for blood filtration, so it is possible for relatives to donate kidneys.
But the sale of kidneys is not allowed in regular hospitals, and the source of kidney sources cannot be for profit.
In other words, according to regulations, kidneys can be donated, but the person donating the kidney is either related to the person who needs the kidney, or the person is dying and plans to donate his body.
For the latter recipients of donations, some compensation can be given based on their own financial conditions and the needs of the other party's family, usually around 200,000 to 300,000.
Ping'an County has turned this into a business.
Chen Jiang nodded; "The physicians here will do a comprehensive examination for those in need to match the kidney source in this way."
"The surgery will perform the surgery over there."
“But the specific location of the operation is not at the county hospital.”
This is the clue obtained by Lu Chuan’s investigation.
Based on what he has learned so far about the target population, these people will undergo surgery after finding matching needs.
"According to what they said, after completing the corresponding examinations at the hospital, they left the hospital and took a 120 ambulance to leave. They rode for about 30 minutes before getting off the bus."
"But this time is only an estimate. These people were given anesthesia when they were in the car, so they have no idea where they got off the car or where the surgery was performed. After waking up, they Has returned to the ward of the county hospital.”
This gray industrial chain must have its own underground operating room.
But Lu Chuan and others have not discovered where the operating room is yet. And who was involved in the operation? It is still unclear what role the physicians and surgeons in the hospital played. (End of this chapter)