They called it organ retention, but it was more like robbing the dead

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.

Their children's organs were surreptitiously acquired for medical purposes.

The agony which parents felt on discovering that their children's organs had been effectively stolen was summed up this week by one father whose two-year-old daughter died in Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in 1982. He and his wife allowed a post-mortem examination be conducted in good faith.