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Article: MASS GRAVE PLAN FOR CHILDREN'S HEARTS ; Bid to stop row over hospital taking organs
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- October 16, 1999
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THE hearts of children taken by a hospital without their parents'
knowledge could be buried in a mass grave in Birmingham.
The solution is being suggested to parents by the Young at Heart
charity, which supports families at the Diana, Princess of Wales
Children's Hospital.
It is is aimed at swiftly ending the heartbreak of families who
learned last month that the hearts had been kept by the hospital.
But one father, Alderman Matt Redmond, whose six-year-old
daughter Karen's heart was taken after she died 34 years ago at the
Children's Hospital, reacted angrily to the suggestion.
Accused officials
He accused officials of putting profits before people.
He said: "The hospital ought to pay for ...