The pituitary glands of hundreds of dead children were removed without their parents’ consent for manufacturing human growth hormones during the seventies and eighties, the Madden Report found today.

IT is impossible for those of us not affected by the almost Burke and Hare-type deception carried out by so many hospitals, in collusion with pharmaceutical companies, to understand the anguish of those parents.

THE organ retention controversy continued last night after the second company named as using pituitary glands from dead children for drug manufacturing said it was supplied by a large number of Irish hospitals.

MANY grieving parents received the body of their baby for burial wearing a little crocheted bonnet, which they were told not to take off.

THE drugs company that made medication from brain tissue taken from dead infants without their parents’ knowledge confirmed last night it had paid hospitals for supplying the body parts.