Man alleges doctor harvests wife’s kidney without consent in Plateau

A man identified as Alhaji Kamal has alleged that a medical doctor (name withheld) based in Jos, Plateau State, hassted his wife’s kidney during a surgical operation without his consent or that of the family.

Addressing newsmen, Kamal, who is a Jos-based businessman, narrated that the incident occurred in 2018 when his wife, Kehinde Kamal, approached a hospital along Yanhanu at Nasarawa Gwom area of Jos North local area of the state as a result of stomach pain.

According to him, his wife was diagnosed with appendicitis and was therefore recommended for a surgical operation, which was eventually carried out and adjudged by the hospital to be successful.

Sometimes, in January 2018, my wife Kehinde Kamal complained of pains around her abdomen and was taken to a private hospital along Yanshanu-Nasarawa of Jos North Local Government Area. She was diagnosed as suffering from an appendix and needed to be operated upon.

“We paid for the full cost of the operation, drugs, and other expenses as directed by the doctor, and the operation was consequently carried out.

“Shortly after the operation, she started complaining of severe pains. We managed the pains for years while visiting the same doctor, but all of a sudden, just a few days ago, towards the end of August, the pains got extreme, and we had to go to the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), where it was confirmed that one of her kidneys had been removed by some doctors.

“We later visited a specialist in a private hospital in Jos, and it was confirmed that my wife had her kidney removed. What I want is justice. I want the world to know that this is the predicament that my wife is passing through,” Alhaji Kamal alleged.

Alhaji Kamal said the case has been reported to the Nasarawa Gwom Division of the Plateau State Police Command, while the spokesman, Plateau Command DSP Alfred Alabo, could not be reached.

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