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.”
The hospital further disclosed that, following concerns raised by the family, it sponsored a CT intravenous urogram (CT-IVU) at a Federal Teaching Hospital to determine the patient’s condition.
“The CT-IVU findings were consistent with a likely congenital absence of one kidney, with associated abnormalities involving the ureter on the other side. These findings strongly support a developmental condition rather than any surgical removal of a kidney,” the statement said.
The management noted that it paid for the investigation “in the spirit of helping out to reveal the truth.”
The hospital said it had met with the patient’s family on two occasions to explain the findings and review the clinical records and investigation results.
