FHI will prohibit research on organs without consent – Aftenbladet.no

The institute’s director, Camilla Stoltenberg, as a response to a bill advocates to tighten legislation to prevent it being taken out parts of organs from barnelik without the prior consent of the next of kin first According to VG.

The newspaper has previously written about how the Institute of Forensic Medicine (now the subject of Public Health) has taken out part of the brain, heart and other organs from 700 dead children’s bodies for research.

Government will propose to Parliament on new legislation on transplantation and autopsies during the year.

FHI has previously adopted a negative to the legal autopsies would be subject to the legislation, but has now turned and recommends that it should be proposed that immediate kin get information and booking access.

(© NTB)