Warrington hospital ‘sorry’ for dead baby mistakes
Jan 19 2009
by Alan Weston, Liverpool Daily Post
WARRINGTON Hospital blamed an “administrative error” after it was revealed a miscarried baby's body was stored in its mortuary for almost two years without the mother’s permission.
It came to light when Leanne McCabe, of Runcorn, Cheshire, contacted the hospital to arrange a funeral for the son she had miscarried.
It was at this point that the hospital told her that, not only had he already been cremated, but that they still had the body of another baby she miscarried two years earlier.
Leanne, 25, is reported as saying: “Losing a child is such a harrowing thing and finding this out has made it even more of a nightmare.”
A spokesman for Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has apologised for the distress caused and said it had taken steps to ensure it could not happen again.
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