London - A British hospital at the centre of a scandal over the removal and storage of babies' organs yesterday said more tissue from dead children had been retained than was originally thought.
Alder Hey Hospital, on Merseyside, has discovered that the cerebellums from the brains of 146 children who died there were removed and stored separately for research purposes at the University of Liverpool.
The discovery means that 62 sets of parents who were initially assured that no organs belonging to their dead children had been kept are now being told this was untrue.
The Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust yesterday issued a statement on behalf of the hospital and the university in which it said the discovery had come to light after staff completed the process of cataloguing body parts stored at the university.