CAIRO: An Egyptian woman has brought a case against her husband for allegedly drugging her and arranging for one of her kidneys to be removed and sold on the black market, local media reported on Saturday.
A judicial inquiry has been launched in the Nile Delta town of Menufiya after Warda Mohammed El-Banna said her husband Saad Helmi had her operated on after a pretend motorcycle accident, the opposition Al-Wafd daily said.
Her husband allegedly gave her a glass of drugged orange juice and said they were going out to see relatives. The woman said she passed out en route and woke up in a private hospital in the up-market Cairo district of Heliopolis.
He explained her scars by saying she had been operated on after they had an accident, but a few days later El-Banna started feeling weak and tests revealed she was missing a kidney.
Her husband is accused of selling the kidney on Egypt s thriving black market for human organs for LE 15,000. -AFP
