THE growing national scandal of hospitals secretly removing dead children's organs without parental consent is also secretly practised against deceased adults, usually mentally disabled or vagrants next of kin.

For decades, hospital and university medical schools have been secretly extracting organs for experiments and training.

Such abuse of the Human Tissues Act has "blind eyes" condoned and covered up by Whitehall Health Department Chief Medical Officers and successive Governments.

Unfortunately, the current Government inquiry will just be another common practice surreptitious whitewash.

R P McDougall

Patterdale Ave

Blackpool

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