Summary
The Parents
59. Throughout this Inquiry,
the parents' interests have remained paramount. Only by analysing
their evidence is it possible to appreciate the impact of these
events upon them. The essence of their complaint is that they were
deliberately misled into thinking that they were burying their deceased
children intact, when in fact each child had been systematically
stripped of his or her organs, a large majority of which remained
stored and unused from 1988 to 1999. The inadequate handling strategy
adopted by Alder Hey merely served to aggravate the situation to
the extent that some families have faced numerous funerals as a
result of organs being returned to them on a piecemeal basis over
the past 14 months. There are still organs awaiting repatriation.
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