Four nurses in Tanzania’s western Tabora region are to be charged in court with harvesting the organs of baby twins, a regional official has said.
A committee investigating the incident found that the bodies of the prematurely born twins were mutilated after they had died.
The mother found her babies’ eyes gouged out and part of their skin peeled off from the forehead.
Tabora regional commissioner Batilda Buriani said the nurses, who are under arrest, have been suspended from their duties.
“The organ-harvesting was linked to witchcraft,” said Batilda
The nurses misled the investigating committee by falsely claiming that the bodies were kept in the maternity ward.
Ms Buriani claims that the bodies were discovered in the nurses’ room.
The nurses have not yet commented on the allegations
Furthermore, the twins died due to a lack of neonatal care services, according to the report.
Neonatal care services were unavailable at the facility where they were born.
