Controversy Erupts Over Organ Donation Claims at Casablanca Clinic

As the clinic’s fees were beyond the family’s means, a doctor is said to have offered them a special payment method: donating a vital organ, in this case the heart, reports the newspaper Assabah. This information was immediately denied by the clinic director in a statement to the H24info website. "No private clinic or medical institution in Morocco is authorized to carry out organ harvesting."

Reacting to the family’s accusations, Dr. Youssef Alaoui categorically denied them, stating that "the family asked to recover the body but we do not have the right to give a body in a state of brain death because we do not have the right to disconnect it."

While accusing the family of being the source of this false allegation, the doctor did not fail to raise the legal framework surrounding this practice in Morocco, adding, according to h24info, that "even informally, there is no organ harvesting in Morocco, it is a much too dangerous act for the medical profession as well as for the patient."

Furthermore, Dr. Youssef Alaoui also took care to specify that the sum of 230,000 dirhams mentioned by the deceased’s family, relating to the clinic’s fees, is ten times higher than the actually billed costs. According to him, it would only be 23,000 dirhams.