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Tue 07 Jul 2008Technician placed organs in wrong body after postmortem
AN INVESTIGATION into how an extra heart, extra liver and extra set of kidneys ended up in the body of a British tourist after a postmortem examination at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital has found a technician in the hospital put them there. EITHNE DONNELLAN, Health Correspondent, reports
The independent investigation found that postmortems had been carried out on two bodies at or about the same time in the same autopsy room at the hospital, in August 2006. One was on an Irish woman, the other was on the male tourist, 55-year-old Louis Selo.
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