Attending ex-girlfriend's wedding, arresting the groom's officer on the spot

Three days passed quickly.

The two groups led by Lu Chuan have been investigating in Ping'an County for three days.

With the help of some clues that Li Donglin had already obtained in advance, Lu Chuan and his team quickly got to the point of their work here.

At present, a rough range of statistics on the relevant population has been compiled.

At the same time, a more detailed investigation was conducted into the National Health Commission’s reliance on abnormal medical data.

Based on the existing investigation results, some situations have been confirmed.

Lu Chuan and others temporarily rented a factory in Ping'an County as their office.

The factory building is located in a remote area with no cover around it, so it is relatively safe.

Next to the simple desk, Lu Chuan and his colleagues were studying the current situation.

Chen Jiang is reporting some of his findings.

"I have arranged a group of people to conduct a visit and investigation at the People's Hospital in the past two days."

According to the information provided by Li Donglin, data from the National Health Commission showed that Ping'an County People's Hospital had the largest amount of data among all abnormal data.

"Ping'an County People's Hospital is a county-level hospital, so 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 cardiology department or cardiac surgery department. Basically, there are two departments with more people: internal medicine and surgery.

In addition to these two, there are also male and gynecological departments.

“We focused on the internal medicine investigation.”

Chen Jiang did a lot of preparatory work before investigating the hospital.

Through the existing information, Chen Jiang and his team first found a patient who was missing a kidney.

Lu Chuan had also seen this person before. As a person with experience, he only needed to take a look at the scar on the left side of the opponent's knife to know what was going on.

The incisions used for removing a kidney from a living donor and for removing kidney lesions are different.

From the perspective of medical wounds, the wound caused by resection of general kidney lesions is 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.

However, it is not possible to remove kidneys from living donors. The incision required for removing kidneys from living donors is very long and curved. This is because we need to ensure that the kidney is not damaged in any way during the removal process, so the window surface must be large enough.

However, as to how he lost his kidney, this person insisted that he had kidney disease and had it removed.

Chen Jiang and his friends did not press the other party too hard, for fear of arousing their vigilance, and just said that they also wanted to find some ways.

However, he didn't know much about the situation here and was quite 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 a follow-up visit.

When the other party saw that there was 500 yuan, he agreed.

"From what we have learned so far, it is certain that this hospital is the source of kidney harvesting from living people, and Hu is one of the sources."

When Chen Jiang sent people to investigate, he made contact through the person whose kidney had been removed and the doctor who was treating the patient.

I said I wanted to make money.

"But the other party didn't agree immediately, and still said that some tests were needed." "I think the other party might be looking for a match."

It doesn't mean that after the kidney is removed from someone's body, it can be used by other sick people. There is also the possibility of rejection, so the kidneys need to be paired.

In addition to the hospital's investigation results, Lu Chuan also conducted personal visits and investigations, and made some great progress.

Lu Chuan counted the number of people who had their kidneys removed while still alive, and found that there were about 19 people.

These people all live in remote rural areas and their living conditions are relatively difficult.

When asked normally, these people insisted that they had undergone kidney removal surgery because of their illness. However, after Lu Chuan used some tricks, many of them confessed.

These people sell their kidneys for money, so naturally they are short of money.

It just so happens that Lu Chuan is the one who is least short of money.

Of course, this money came from Lu Chuan's own pocket. If he went back to get it reimbursed, that would definitely be impossible. However, in order to solve the case, Lu Chuan didn't care too much.

"It is now certain that there is a gray industry chain of live kidney removal and trading in Ping'an County."

Lu Chuan had met and interacted with 19 of the 7 people. After giving them some money, they basically said that they did not have kidney disease at all, but had just sold their kidneys.

"One hundred thousand dollars a piece."

This is the result of Lu Chuan’s investigation over the past three days.

Under normal circumstances, the cost of a general kidney transplant operation is around 30 yuan, which mainly includes some surgical fees, examination fees, and the most important point, the compensation cost for the nephron.

From the perspective of physiological necessity, retaining only one of the two kidneys can meet the body's need for blood filtration, so it is possible for relatives to donate kidneys.

However, kidney trading is not allowed in regular hospitals, and the source of kidneys cannot be for profit.

That is to say, according to regulations, kidneys can be donated, but the person donating the kidney must either be a relative of the person in need, or the other person is dying and plans to donate his or her body.

As for the latter recipients of donations, they can be given some compensation based on their own financial conditions and the needs of the other party's family, usually around 20 to 30 yuan.

Ping'an County has turned this into a business.

Chen Jiang nodded; "The physicians here will conduct a comprehensive examination on those in need, and match the kidney source in this way."

"The surgery department is doing the operation."

“But the specific location of the operation is not in the county hospital.”

This is the clue Lu Chuan obtained from his investigation.

Based on what he has learned so far about the target population, these people will undergo surgery after finding a matching need.

"According to what they said, after they had the relevant examinations at the hospital, they left the hospital and boarded a 120 ambulance. They were in the car for about 30 minutes before they got off."

"But this time is just an estimate. These people were anesthetized while in the car, so they had no idea where they got off the car or where the surgery was performed. After waking up, they had already 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 yet found where the operating room is. Who are the people involved in the operation? What role did the internists and surgeons in the hospital play? It is still unknown. (End of this chapter)