A forensics expert told the retrial of three men originally convicted of involvement in organ-trafficking from the Medicus clinic in Kosovo that two patients had their kidneys removed for no medical reason.
Forensics expert Carmen Barbu told Pristina Basic Court on Thursday that the kidneys of two patients of the Medicus clinic who are testifying as protected witnesses in the trial were removed for no medical reason.
The former owner of the Medicus clinic, Lutfi Dervishi, his son Arban Dervishi and head anesthetist Sokol Hajdini are being retried for alleged involvement in organised crime in connection with people-trafficking after a Kosovo Supreme Court ruling overturned the original convictions.
Barbu told the court that she found after examining that both of them did not have their left kidney.
“From the CT scan, we found the absence of the left kidney, and it was also concluded that the kidney was removed surgically,” she said.
She stated that from a medical point of view, there was no reason to remove a kidney from these patients.
