The Plateau state command of the Nigeria Police, Thursday, confirmed that it was investigating a case of alleged organ harvesting involving a medical doctor in a hospital in the state.
the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO in the state, DSP Alfred Alabo, disclosed this to our correspondent in Jos, the Plateau state capital.
Alhaji Kamal had accused a medical doctor of harvesting one of his wife’s kidney, which left the woman in chronic pains in the last five years.
Alhaji Kamal accused Dr Noah Kekere of Murma hospital situated along Yanshanu – Nasarawa of Jos North local government in the state of harvesting his wife’s kidney during a surgical operation in 2018.
Alhaji Kamal had, Wednesday, told journalists that sometimes in January 2018, his wife Kehinde Kamal complained of abdominal pains and she was rushed to the said doctor’s clinic in the Nasarawa Gwong area of Jos North local government area where he diagnosed her and concluded that she had appendicitis that had ruptured and needed urgent surgery.
“We paid for the full cost of the drugs and hospital bills as instructed by the hospital management before undertaking the operations by the doctor.
“About eight years ago, my mum was sick so she was taken to the hospital owned by Dr. Noah Kekere at Yanshanu, Nasarawa Gwong community of Jos North local government area and in the process of going to the see my mum in the hospital, I got acquainted with the doctor.
“When my wife fell sick in 2018, complaining of severe stomach pain, my mum encouraged us to take her there because my wife used to follow my mum to see the doctor when my mum was sick. As we got there, the doctor did a scan and said my wife had a ruptured appendicitis and must be operated upon immediately and he charged us N140, 000.
“But when I called some people to complain about the high charges as I planned to take her to Jos University Teaching Hospital, JUTH, they advised that I should just go ahead and save her life.
“The doctor asked how much I had and I said N80,000, which I paid, apart from other charges for drugs. But after the operation, my wife kept complaining about the pain and the doctor kept collecting money from me all these years.
“The day the doctor conducted the operation, he started from 12 pm till 8 pm and thereafter for the past five years, my wife kept complaining of severe stomach pains.
“I continued to take her to the same hospital because I did not want to change the doctor that started the treatment. It was when she complained continuously about the pains that I then decided to go to JUTH, a few days ago. There we discovered that one of my wife’s kidneys was removed.
“We reported the matter to the Police at Nasarawa Gwong and the doctor was arrested two days ago. The case has been transferred to the Commissioner of Police.
“What I want is justice. I want the world to know the predicament that my wife is passing through because of doctor Kekere’s unprofessional conduct,” he said.
