and fired from her new job after complaining A former employee of a nonprofit organ recovery group has claimed she was asked to harvest organs from a person who was still living - and then fired by her new employer after airing her qualms to members of Congress. Nyckoletta Martin, 38, made the revelations Tuesday to The Wall Street Journal, describing how she was let go by Paragonix Technologies , her new employer, on September 13 after she wrote a damning letter about her previous workplace, Kentucky Organ Donor, where she stopped working in 2021.
Days before, a letter she wrote to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee was read and discussed on the House floor, after it alleged that there is currently outsized pressure on organ collectors.
Singling out the organ-procurement group in Kentucky where she worked, she recalled being pressured to retrieve organs from a patient before he died - while he was awake. He later left the facility alive, Martin said - choosing not to name him.