Reports indicate that a 33-year-old woman who passed away three weeks after arriving in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, died as a result of her employer’s botched kidney removal procedure.
Rose Atieno’s husband, Abdulrazik Juma, asserts that Rose Atieno called him in her final moments to tell him that she had been forced by her employer to have a kidney removed so that it could be donated to a sick family member.
On May 23, 2022, she arrived in Saudi Arabia, and on June 7, 2022, her death was confirmed.
“l was unable to reach her for over three days. Her mobile phone had been switched off and five days later, she called me with a different number and told me that she had been kidnapped and was being held at a local hospital against her will to donate her kidney,” he said.
Juma asserts that after a while, she stopped hearing from his wife, and a friend told him that she had passed away in a hospital after supposedly falling off a ladder while washing windows at her employer’s home, Juma claims that she had not heard from his wife later on.
Juma stated that her body was received by the family after arriving in the nation on Tuesday evening via the Moi International Airport.
“When the body arrived in the country and was taken home for the night vigil l had time to mourn my wife and looked closely at her body and found surgical healing marks on her stomach prove enough that she was operated on before she died in unclear circumstances,” he said.
