MORTUARY EMPLOYEES ARRESTED FOR STEALING EYES

Four people in central Hunan, China, were detained on suspicion of being involved with organ trading after a dead patient’s eyes were taken as his body lay in a hospital mortuary. The man died of organ failure on Tuesday morning. When his sister viewed him later that day, she found his eyes were missing. A cotton ball was put in the left eye, while a surgical tool used to expand the eye socket was in the right. By Wednesday, police officers had detained four people for alleged theft and defiling a corpse. Some of them were mortuary employees. There are 300,000 patients waiting for transplants every year in China, while only 10,000 are carried out because of a shortage of suitable organs. China ended its practice of harvesting organs from executed criminals in 2014, leaving donations as the sole source for transplants.
* Well, not the ONLY source, as it turns out.
* Hospital security needs more eyes on the mortuary.
* Nice of the staff to check on the body before the sister came by.
* “Sorry, ma’am. It’s probably those darn neighborhood kids again.”
* Ay yi yi.
* Once again, “Minority Report” predicts the future.