The University of Toledo Medical Center has suspended its transplant program after a nurse threw out a kidney.

University of Toledo Medical Center – A live donor was kind enough to give away his kidney. The next thing he knew, they misplaced it and ended up at the bottom of a trash can. According to ABC News, doctors attempted to revive the kidney when they discovered the error. The attempt was unsuccessful because the organ had been damaged too much. Now the hospital’s transplant program has been suspended.

ABC News and other reporters have pinned the mistake on a nurse for the misplaced kidney. According to the Toledo Blade, another nurse told them the surgeon should have been held accountable.”Where in the recovery, flushing, and prep of a kidney, and transport to the other [operating] room is a nurse involved? Whoever was the primary surgeon should be held accountable,” Donna Luebke, a registered nurse told the Blade. Two nurses have been suspended for this mishap, but the surgeon Dr. Michael Rees has not faced any discipline.

The Toledo Blade also discovered a 2009 lawsuit both the surgeon and one of the nurses. In this lawsuit, filed by surgical technician Kelly Haas, claims that Dr. Rees kicked her in the back during surgery. Dr. Rees was seemingly upset because Haas was leaving the operating room so a different nurse could take her place for the day, but Dr. Rees didn’t think the new nurse was qualified, noted by the Blade.