We Don’t Do Kidney Transplant In FMC Keffi-Medical Director Tell Journalists

Rabiu Omaku

The Chief Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre, Keffi, Joshua Ndom-Gyan following the lingering impasse between the hospital and a patient who claimed that his left side kidney was removed from the centre, the headship of the centre denied the claimed, saying it was a calculated attempt to ridicule the centre.

Gyan gave the disclosure during a briefing held at the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Nasarawa state chapter stating that the patient returned back to the hospital after six years of successful surgical operation.

“Some individuals and selected management staff are held bent tarnishing the hard-earned reputation of the Centre, thereby making a mess of the giant strides we have collectively made in recent times”.

“This has the implication of slowing the pace of development and also depriving well-meaning compatriots of much needed health care services”.

The Medical Director while clearing the air on issues surrounding the harvest of left kidney of one of their patient, he described purported harvesting of kidney as misinformation.

“One of our patient who undergoes operation and 1kg of pussy tumour was removed from his left side abdomen that was suspected to be cancer but tests failed to confirm that ,he was nursed and discharge after about a month”.

“I am not oblivious of the stories of trafficking in human parts that have bedeviled our society, also every profession may have some bad blood, I therefore do not speak in defense of any one but as the Accounting Officer of this institution who is accountable to the government and the public if a staff is found wanting we deal with him decisively”.

The Medical Director reeled out some of the success recorded over the years to include the introduction of electronic medical record and the introduction of tele-medicine which he said would be commissioned during “health week” slated for Tuesday next week.

He described the imbroglio and court cases between the management the three staff suspended as a total distraction meant to drag the centre backward, saying no amount of blackmail would deter the medical centre from achieving it set goals.

“I would like to advise the trio to save the public from this infectious error and their families from needless disruption and the centre from distractions from exhibiting it core mandate by telling the truth, accept their fault and make amends”.