FG releases names of foreign hospitals involved in organ trafficking, warns Nigerians against hospitals in Egypt
The federal government has alerted Nigerian traveling abroad about the rising cases of illegal organ harvesting by some foreign hospitals.
The minister of health, Isaac Adewole, in a letter signed by the director of hospital services, Wapada Balami, instructed the president of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Mike Ogirima, to ensure that Nigerians were informed of the dangers of undergoing surgeries abroad.
The minister of health said Egypt had recently arraigned 41 suspects for illegal organ harvesting.
According to the letter, some of the private hospitals which have been indicted in Egypt for organ trafficking include:
1. Dar al-Shefa in Helwan Cairo
2. Al-Bashar Specialist Hospital in Faisal Giza
3. Al-Amal Centre for General Surgery in Mauritenya Giza
4. Dar Ibn Al-Nafis Hospital, Giza
The letter, titled, Re: 41 suspected illegal human kidney traffickers on trial in Egypt, dated October 11, 2017 read in part : ”I am directed to inform you of the above subject matter and to inform you that information reaching the Presidency revealed that there is an increase in illegal harvesting and transplanting of human organs.
“Presently, Egypt’s prosecutor-general arraigned 41 suspected human kidney traffickers.
The prosecutors gave the names of the complicit in private hospitals in Giza, Cairo, Egypt as follows: Dar al-Shefa in Helwan Cairo; Al-Bashar Specialist Hospital in Faisal Giza; Al-Amal Centre for General Surgery in Mauritenya Giza and Dar Ibn Al-Nafis Hospital, Giza.
“Kindly note and disseminate this information to doctors in the relevant specialties to be aware so that Nigerians will be circumspect while embarking on medical tourism in other countries.”
See a copy of the letter below:
