Heads and knees for a few hundred euro: the 250 corpses piled up in the basement of the Madrid Complutense University, were reportedly leased to companies and private individuals.
The corpses scandal at the prestigious Madrid Complutense University expands: the anatomical institute should have rented donor bodies for hundreds of euros to private individuals and companies, reports the Spanish newspaper “El Mundo”. On Monday, the Journal had reported that 250 corpses piled in the basement of the University Institute – “without any control and hygiene”.
The bodies are apparently for years in the basement of the department ” Anatomy and Human Embryology II ,” and to disturb the peace of the dead and the improper bearings now added another serious charge : How ” El Mundo ” reported to employees of the anatomy dispenser body and its parts have given to doctors and companies or even sold .
However, it should also have seminars given directly to the University for external customers : A course of four to six bodies have therefore cost about 3000 euros . Customers should have counted an insurance company and a dental implant manufacturer.
Been According to the person the bodies were of “irregular courses ” used and lent for money : but hardly so , as a source told the radio station esRadio – This is according to the newspaper , although a legal and common practice at Spanish universities . It would have not only the institution but also earned individual faculty members and thus enriched . Some corpses were allegedly sold in parts , the insider tells the transmitter esRadio prices of 300 and 600 euros for a knee or a head.
Fund scandal in Madrid:The bodies will be burned this week
“El Mundo” has released a video showing the stacked corpses: Behind a wooden door in it are in a bright room bearing bodies and parts of lifeless human bodies to see partially piled into large heaps.
The State University Complutense, attended by about 90,000 students are enrolled, has the irregularities in the handling of donated bodies now admitted, writes the Spanish newspaper “El País”. In an initial statement, the director of the anatomical institute, Ramón Mérida had referred to the economic crisis and cuts as reasons for the apparent chaos.
It is still unclear who exactly is responsible for the scandal. ” The guy who runs the crematorium , has gone into early retirement in December. Previously, there was no way to fill this position again,” Merida said on Monday, ” El Mundo ” . The Spanish newspaper ” El País ” shared the University of contrast with , the “personal problem ” had been solved , according to esRadio to the vacant position have been occupied again in April .
Spoke up in ” El País ” and the head of the second anatomical institute of the University , Fermín Viejo, and informed violently against his university colleagues in his department was the situation ” completely different,” there were all donated body properly ” classified , ” identified and stored in hygienic standards.
Found already partially mummified corpses to be removed later this week from the basement of the institute. With a funeral home , it was agreed to burn the body in the next few days .
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