Nigerian TV Host and writer, Emma Ugolee, has alleged that his donor’s kidney was swapped in India during a medical trip to the country.

The TV host said his sister accompanied him to India for a kidney transplant in 2012 because the cost of doing a transplant surgery in the South Asia country was cheaper than in the United States.

In a lengthy post on his Instagram page, Emma Ugolee narrated how his doctor in Nigeria discovered that the kidney his sister had donated for him had been swapped.

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He shared his experience in reaction to a story shared by a Nigerian man who blamed the incompetence of staff at an Indian hospital for the death of his mother.

The TV host stressed that the fallacy that India is salvation for the sick is absolutely false adding that he is lucky to be alive to tell his story.

Emma Ugolee who revealed that he in his 1st restart session of dialysis said his story is one out of hundreds of Indian trips gone wrong.

Read the lengthy post:

“I have no faith in Govt. so this post it not even hoping for her to act. I am just hoping somehow, that the fallacy that India is salvation for the sick is changed.

It is a big business with the traditional Indian corruption at the core of it. Life often the sacrifice paid. Treatment is secondary. Examples abound.
Emma Ugolee

How Indian hospital swapped the kidney donated to me by my sister – #EmmaUgolee. [Swipe]

“Excitement fueled my mind as my sister & I headed for India in 2012 for a kidney transplant. She was a perfect match for me and we were mighty glad about that. Adding to our joy was the fact that we were going to spend $30,000 for the entire surgery. About 10% what was needed for same in America

“Google searches on the hospital’s records, all impressive. SUV airport pick up, intimidating hospital structures, 1st class treatment, all part of the packaged experience that would have the average Nigerian patient almost thanking Buddha for healthcare alien to his world.

The teeming Nigerian crowd at the lobby was like a pilgrimage for the sick.

The multi-million dollar traffic from Nigeria is aided by hundreds of Indian marketing officials parading Nigerian hospitals in full collaboration with Nigerian doctors who get percentages in exchange for references.

6weeks later we are wheeled out of the surgery room. A test called the creatinine test used to tell that the kidney was doing great was never passed. My fears were allayed by the doctor who said it would take a while.

So we came home. Weeks later, the while never came. My doctor in Nigeria gets worried and orders a biopsy and a scan.

The results to my ears in his words: “Emmanuel there is no way in God’s green earth that this is your sister’s kidney inside you. Not with size and functionality.” So it was that my sister’s kidney was swapped during the surgery

Made sense when the hospital among many others in India had to face a special committee investigating organ black market deals

6months later, my legs are all swollen as I lay on my back for my 1st restart session of dialysis.

And so the horror hit the refresh button for me to re-live

My story is one out of hundreds of Indian trips gone wrong. I am blessed to be telling my story. Many of my friends cannot because they died.

I have no faith in Govt. so this post it not even hoping for her to act. I am just hoping somehow, that the fallacy that India is salvation for the sick is changed.

It is a big business with the traditional Indian corruption at the core of it. Life often the sacrifice paid. Treatment is secondary. Examples abound.
Emma Ugolee