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Some of the images associated with the organ retention issues at Alder Hey Hopsital in Liverpool, UK

 
Link to Alan Milburn's [Secretary of State for Health] Speech to the House of Commons [UK Government] on the 30th of January 2001

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What are the aims of PITY II?

The group was set up by parents as a result of the revelation that Alder Hey Hospital was retaining organs of dead children after post mortems. This was being done without the knowledge or consent of their parents.

The main aim of the group is to provide support to other parents in the same situation. No one, who is not directly affected, can understand the pain and the anger as much as another parent, and together we can help each other get through.

The second aim of the group is to get answers to key questions · Why did this happen? · Who was responsible? · How can we ensure that it never happens again?

Having got answers to these questions we want changes in the law to make sure that on-one else is put in the same situation in the future.


 

PITY II (Parents who have Interred Their Young Twice) is the parents' support group set up in the wake of the organ retention scandal
at Alder Hey Hospital (Liverpool, UK). It aims to provide self help support and advice to affected families.


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