Joe Foundation Hospital, located at Iheaka in Igboeze South Local Government Area of Enugu State, has been sealed over an alleged human organ trafficking.
This is as relatives of patients of the hospital, both discharged and those still undergoing treatment, currently sit on the edge over possibilities of their relatives being victims of the illicit dealings.
When NewsNGR visited the hospital Friday morning, the once-bubbling hospital was locked.
Reports earlier emerged on Wednesday that the medical director of the hospital, popularly called Dr Obara, was arrested after a patient he operated upon developed complications, which later medical examination by a different medical expert confirmed that one of the patient’s kidneys had been harvested.
“We don’t know what is happening in the hospital,” said a resident of Iheaka. “The doctor was arrested and taken to Enugu. As you can see, the place is locked. Government might have locked it although there is no notice of sealing.”
Meanwhile, a man who did not want his name mentioned, said he had planned to take his nephew who was operated on at the hospital for medical checks.
According to him, “We want to be sure that my nephew’s kidney is intact. He has been complaining of some unending pains, and this same doctor has been treating him. Who knows if we are also victims?”
A social media influencer, Chijinkem Ugwuanyi, had earlier reported how the MD of Joy Foundation Hospital had been exploiting his patients’ organs.
Quoting him, “A doctor aka Doctor Obara, the medical doctor of the hospital, Joe Foundation, popularly known as Ulogwu Obara, which is located along Holy Trinity Parish after Everbright Filling Station at Ekoyi Iheaka, Enugu State, after investigations, is found to be involved in organ trafficking.
“This was made known after a family took their child for an ordinary appendix operation, and ever since the operation was done, the child wasn’t getting better. They kept going for a medical checkup and the said doctor kept calling different names of sickness to be wrong with the child.
“The family kept the child under-medicated, but after a long time, there wasn’t any improvement and they decided to go to other hospitals. Over there it was confirmed by other doctors with medical evidence that the kidney of the patient had been harvested.
“The family took up the case to the Nigeria Police, and it was confirmed after thorough investigations that the so-called doctor, who has been living in opulence and luxury from the money he realised on organ trafficking, has been on this evil act for a long time.
“That the doctor will just call one name of a sickness supposed to be wrong with the patient, and after surgery, the patient will not recover till he or she will die. He has done it successfully for years on several occasions until now that he was arrested but nobody knows.”