Agony goes on for organ scandal families

FAMILIES devastated by the organ retention scandal face further heartache as they wait to be told that their deceased children’s body parts were supplied to a pharmaceutical company for drug production.

Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin, has written to around 20 families to confirm their children’s pituitary glands were passed on to Pharmacia Ireland Ltd, which used them to make human growth hormones.

But other families have yet to be notified because the hospital is awaiting further clarification of information it received from Pharmacia, while several other hospitals are still processing data which they got from the company.