Arrest after theft of three human legs from hospital waste “dump”
It takes all sorts – A man who stole three amputated human legs from the Cantacuzino hospital was caught by the police after two days of searching The hearings are […]
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Shock as remains of 18 babies incinerated with clinical waste
Charlotte Yeates, one of the women who helped unearth the hospital organ-retention scandal more than 20 years ago has described as “shameful” the incineration of babies’ remains in 2020. Charlotte […]
Illegal human placenta trade in China using medical waste, funeral homes
The black market for human placentas thriving in China People who buy fresh human placenta believe it has healing properties and will either cook and eat it, or process and […]
No end in sight for Scotland’s clinical waste crisis
Cash-strapped NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) is spending ever-increasing amounts of money on disposing of hazardous clinical waste, while a disposal firm awaits planning permission for a new incineration […]
Disposal of tissue waste
Regulated disposal of tissue waste has always been problematic. Simply putting them, suitably bagged or binned as appropriate into a licensed clinical waste incinerator is straightforward though often rather disruptive […]
Was Scots clinical waste containing body parts sent to Sri Lanka?
Thirty tons of clinical waste from Scottish hospitals was reported missing after the collapse of Lanarkshire-based disposal contractor HES last year and the Scottish Government has been urged to investigate […]
Mystery of the baby’s leg dumped at a Welsh rubbish tip
It started out as just a normal day at the tip for Mike Lewis of Carmarthen. The air was changing as the season altered from summer to autumn. The temperature […]
Woman wants to use skin from her amputated leg to make handbag
Yes, it’s true. A woman who is soon to have her leg amputated wants to use her own skin to make a handbag. Joan, who is 55 and from Manchester, […]
Pensioners “plagued by vermin from abandoned HES Ltd plant”
A furious pensioner has told how her home is now plagued by rats and putrid pongs from an abandoned medical waste depot. The lady revealed vermin have overrun her garden since […]
Human remains and medical waste piling up at NHS trusts
Human remains and other medical waste that require professional storage and treatment are building up at dozens of NHS trusts in England after a scandal-hit contractor stopped collections. Ministers issued […]
Ten North-East health trusts hit by halt in clinical waste collections
SEVERAL NHS trusts in the North-East have had their clinical waste collections stopped after a scandal-hit contractor ran into difficulties. Hospitals run by ten NHS trusts in the region have been […]
HES Normanton stored waste for months, freezer turned off
In yet another shock horror news report it is claimed that HES were storing mountains of waste and ‘body parts’ in a freezer that for months had the power turned […]
Street cleaners find human organs in garbage bin
Street cleaners in a northeastern Egyptian city found a medical waste bag in a garbage bin filled with human liver, other organs, and surgical instruments. Mahmoud, a cleaner, said he […]
They’ve stuffed up: How the hospital lost my mum’s arm
On occasions, people want to keep their gallstones as a memento of their operation, and there is the ongoing issue of disposal of foetal remains and the question of a […]
Tissue waste disposal, Russian style?
Two fisherman have made a grisly discovery on an island in the Amur River, near Khabarovsk in the far east of Russia, when they stumbled upon a severed hand. Police […]
Resomation, possibly?
A council has plans to allow people to dispose of loved ones’ bodies through water cremation, a new and environmentally friendly way to get rid of human remains. The process […]
Dogs feast on abandoned stillborn at Indian hospital
Stray dogs feasted on a stillborn in the Jeypore sub divisional Odisha hospital on Monday. A woman had delivered the stillborn baby and her relatives left it outside the labour […]
Mystery over fresh ‘human’ heart found by police in Ohio field
Police have been left mystified after a fresh heart, believed to be human, was found in a field. Police say no one has come forward to claim the organ! Officers […]
Australian waste disposal firm dumps amputees’ legs in tip
An Australian bulldozer driver’s grisly discovery has led to a health authorities and waste management services being slammed with $17,000 in fines, after he found two severed legs dumped in […]
Another foot in the park
Avon and Somerset Police are appealing for information after another human foot, the third in weeks, has been found in a park in Bath. Assumed to be not suspicious, in […]
Dogs eat a human leg dug up from tomb
A family were left horrified after going to visit the grave of a loved one in an Argentinian cemetery only to find dogs digging up human bones from tombs. The […]
Severed foot is found in a park by a dog walker
Police investigating after a severed FOOT is found in a park by a dog walker, though its the dog who should probably get the credit. A severed human foot has […]
Amputated legs on NSW tip
Two human legs that were removed during a surgery have been found in a waste dump near Newcastle in New South Wales, police have confirmed. A man working at a […]
What can you do with an amputated limb?
BBC News has a piece today, reporting the case of a man who wanted to donate his amputated leg then chose to hold a guess-the-weight competition last month after his […]
Leg it!
Tissue waste disposal will generally necessitate high temperature incineration, or perhaps Resomation. Highly regulated more for aesthetic reasons than for concerns regarding infection – though even the most amorphous blob of […]
Yet another new kid on the block
A new compact energy solution has been launched that will enable hospitals to turn contaminated syringes and other medical devices into heat. DPS Global has unveiled its ST Series, which […]
Disposal of stillborn ‘child’ as clinical waste – European Court judgement
It has been in the news a lot recently, and we have discussed this previously on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum – to ponder upon when a blob of tissue […]
Mother’s anguish after miscarriage ‘waste disposal’
A mother has spoken of her anguish after learning her baby daughter’s body was incinerated with clinical waste at a Shropshire hospital in the 1990s. The woman said she was […]
Tissue waste disposal – a new option?
Tissue waste disposal is a perennial problem. Incineration is the obvious though not only solution, but it is the problem of prior packaging, segregation and waste handling that creates some, […]
Ukrainian clinical waste crime
An astonishingly gruesome crime has been reported concerning the illegal disposal of hospital and clinical wastes from Ukrainian hospitals. A Ukrainian gang that took clinical (medical) waste that included body […]