(The official website of the China International Transplantation Network Assistance Center, which is located in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, and which has a branch in Shanghai)
Summary of CITNAC
Location: 16-05/06,Sino-Korea Mansion,# 124 Hui Gong Street, Shenhe District,
Shenyang, China
Tel: 86- 024-22514701 22514702 22514703
Fax: 86- 024-22514760
Shanghai Office
Tel:86-021-64741273 64033769
Fax: 86—021—64741267
E-mail:info@zoukiishoku.com
A letter to patients who need liver or kidney transplantation (on the front page of the official website)
“Do you know there are over 100 cases of kidney transplantation surgery and above 20 cases of liver transplantation surgery successfully completed in China International Transplantation Network Assistance Center annually. And quite a number of Japanese patients are helped.……
“A few days before, a blood type “O” patient was referred to our center by one of our ex-patient. It only took 3-week to complete his whole treatment process. He expressed his gratitude said: “the whole process is unbelievable, I could finish the transplantation process so successfully. And what surprised me again is that I got much more clearer vision now”. The patient could not help exciting and could not wait to go back to share this good news with his relatives.
“Every December and coming January is peak season of donors, patient would experience the shortest donor waiting period to get the suitable donor. Hence, it is high time for patient who is still working to go for a transplantation surgery during this period of time…….”
In the official webpage FAQ:
“It may take only one week to find out the suitable donor, the maximum time being one month because the kidney transplant needs to find a HLA tissue match” “Our organs do not come from brain death victims because the state of the organ may not be good.”
As in comparison, the median waiting time for a kidney transplant in the United States is roughly two years, according to http: //www.transweb.org/qa/asktw/answers/answers9701/96042008.html According to Dr. Thomas Diflo, the preservation time for kidney for transplantation is 24 ~ 48 hours.
Oriental Organ Transplantation Center (Tianjin City, China)
(both charts appears on the front page of the website), which also says it is the “largest organ transplant center in Asia”)
The words in the background say “Our Achievements”
The words in the background say “Currently, we have completed 2248 cases of liver transplantation (in 2005)” “The survival rate for the following one year has reached 97%”
About Us page:
“…2002年，天津市政府投资兴建的东方器官移植中心大楼已破土动工，将要建成的移植中心大楼建筑面积30000多平方米，设移植…大楼建成后预计每年完成肝脏移植手术500
例，肾脏移植手术300例，同时开展心脏、肺、小肠、胰腺、角膜等组织和器官移植，我们相信东方器官移植中心将成为亚洲规模
最大的器官移植中心。
中心地址：中国天津市南开区复康路24号
(address: 24 Kangfu Road, Nankai District, Tianjin )
联系电话：
0086-22-23626058 (telephone: 0086-22-23626058)
传真号码
(fax)：
0086-22-23682662
中心网址(web)：www.ootc.net”
Translation:
“In 2002, construction began on the building for the Center, in which the Tianjin City government invested …We expect that when the building is constructed, we will have 500 liver transplant operations annually, and 300 kidney transplants annually – we will also perform heart, lung, small intestine, pancreas and cornea transplants.”