One person a day agrees to donate body to science

ONE person a day in Ireland agrees to donate their body to medical science, the country’s medical colleges revealed yesterday.

Trinity College alone has 900 people on a donor 'waiting list'.

The country's five medical colleges receive between 50 and 100 bodies every year. But given the time lapse between people agreeing to donate and dying, there is a constant requirement for cadavers to develop surgical skills.