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Welsh patients receive stolen body parts

A dozen people treated in Wales have body parts stolen from a New York funeral parlor. Two facilities have identified a dozen patients who were treated with bone grafts bought from the U.S. company, Biomedical Tissue Services, which is at the center of a body part stealing scandal. Patients received their stolen body parts from University Hospital in Cardiff and Llandough Hospital in the Vale of Glamorgan. Three more patients from the private Bupa Hospital in Cardiff received bone grafts from Biomedical Tissue Services. Hospital managers took the appropriate steps to reassure patients that the risk of infection was minimal. (IC Network)