EXCLUSIVE: Owen Thompson said grieving families were “victims of an atrocity” after they were reportedly left in the dark over a major 1970s research project.
An SNP MP has called for a public apology and a probe into whether dead miners' lungs were removed without their families' consent.
The coal board created the IOM to research lung diseases in miners. One of their studies from 1979 looked at organs from 500 miners in England, Scotland and Wales who were part of a study on black lung disease, according to the BBC. “UK Government officials and successor organisations to bodies such as the National Coal Board and relevant health departments should publicly acknowledge the wrongs committed and issue formal apologies to the miners' families and communities affected.
“We need real steps to establish a compensation fund for the families of miners whose organs were taken without consent. During the 1960s alone, some 16,000 miners were certified as having the condition across Great Britain. Records of post-mortem examinations and inquests from the 1970s show references to lungs and hearts being kept to be examined by so-called Pneumoconiosis Medical Panels .
Scottish politics At the government's request, thoracic organs such as the lungs and hearts were then made available to the panels for further analysis.
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