File: Diagnostics and dialysis unit of a hospital.
The management of the State Specialist Hospital, Gombe, has strongly denied allegations circulating on social media that its doctors unlawfully removed the kidney of a patient, Mrs Barira Alhassan, during a Caesarean section performed in May 2026.
In a statement obtained on Sunday, the hospital described the allegation, made by the patient’s brother, Mr Zakaria Alhassan, as “false, malicious, reckless and unsupported by medical evidence.”
“The allegations are entirely false, misleading and unsupported by medical facts, clinical evidence and the hospital records,” the management stated.
According to the hospital, theatre records show that Mrs Alhassan only underwent an emergency Caesarean section, stressing that “at no point was any procedure involving the kidneys undertaken by the surgical team.”
