The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has distanced itself from a doctor, Noah Kekere, who has been arrested for allegedly harvesting a woman’s kidney.

The doctor, Noah Kekere, was arrested in Jos, Plateau State, after a businessman, Alhaji Kamal, accused him of removing his wife’s kidney during surgery in 2018.

Kamal said his wife, Kehinde, had been suffering from chronic stomach pains for the past five years and was rushed to Kekere’s clinic located in the Nasarawa Gwom area of Jos North Local Government Area, where he diagnosed and concluded that she had ruptured appendicitis and needed urgent surgery.

“The day the doctor conducted the operation, he started the operation from 12 noon till 8 pm, and 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 her treatment,” Kamal said.

“As she continued to have pains, I decided to go to the Jos University Teaching Hospital a few days ago, where we discovered that one of my wife’s kidneys was removed.”

However, the chairman of the Plateau State chapter of the NMA, Dr Bapigaan William Audu, said that, upon its investigation into the matter, Kekere is not a medical doctor.

Audu stated that records at their secretariat showed that the suspect was neither a medical doctor nor a member of the NMA.

“What we have at our secretariat and the investigation we have carried out showed that he (Dr Kekere) is not a doctor and not our member,” Audu told Daily Trust in an interview.

“We are going to come out with an informed decision on the matter. We are looking at different aspects of the matter as well as different facts available at the moment. So, I think things will be clearer by Monday or Tuesday.” (The Guardian)