Apology over foetuses left in mortuary - The Guardian 1st April 2008

A hospital chief executive yesterday offered her apologies to the families affected by an administrative blunder which led to seven foetuses being stored in a hospital mortuary for up to two years. The foetuses were all less than 16 weeks old and the result either of miscarriage or medically required termination. They had been placed in the mortuary of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire while tests were carried out on tiny samples of their tissue in an effort to learn more about why the brief pregnancy went wrong. The tissue samples were disposed of, but an oversight meant that the foetuses remained in the mortuary.

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