A ripple of fear moved through Ado Ekiti as a state-employed teacher, Afolayan Joshua Adebayo, stood before reporters and accused the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital of removing his kidney without consent during surgery.
Afolayan recounted an accident in August 2025 that led him to seek care at EKSUTH. Scans conducted there, and later at UCH Ibadan, showed a damaged right kidney and a healthy left one. Doctors recommended surgery to extract the faulty kidney to prevent further complications.
He said he urinated shortly before the procedure, but since the operation in October, he has been unable to pass urine. After weeks of unanswered questions and what he described as evasive responses from the hospital, he sought another medical evaluation. The result, he claimed, revealed a startling reality: he now has no kidney at all.
With pain tightening around his life, he appealed to the government to intervene, investigate, and keep him alive.
EKSUTH’s Chief Medical Director, Professor Kayode Olabanji, denied any wrongdoing. He stated that the hospital values life and would never endanger a patient. According to him, surgeons discovered during the procedure that both kidneys were fused together, requiring removal of the damaged organ. He added that EKSUTH does not conduct transplants, making allegations of organ sale unfounded.
Olabanji described the consultant in charge as a seasoned professional and expressed sympathy for Afolayan’s condition. He pledged that the hospital would provide free dialysis while the patient seeks a donor for a needed transplant.
