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You're watching ACC 13. Houston's news leader live with the entire eyewitness news team. This is 13 eyewitness news. Actually, 13 Marvin's Inler heard from a distressed daughter about what she said. Her mother went through at a hospital. So he checked it out. Marvin. Well, after I

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read the daughter's letter, I couldn't believe what happened either, but something went on. Kathie Reece has cancer. She was in the intermediate care unit at LBJ Hospital for treatment. There were three other patients in her room. Mrs Reese says around two or three in the morning

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of july 4th one of the patients died. Mrs Reese recalls the horrible memories of what she thought went on in her room. She says the medical team came in and harvest the organs of the deceased. Not only that, but they left the body in the bed

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for several hours. Are you almost certain that these folks came in and actually harvest some of the parts out of this woman who had passed on? Yes. Yes. The smell and the activity that was going on. There was absolutely no doubt in my mind. And they

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each carried a certain little containers. And they had the one night nurse during the heart and lung pump machine. You could hear it going up and down up and down. I could see through a sheet that's all that was separating. This was just a sheep. And

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they were working over. Yes. Yes. There was at least six or seven people not counting the nerve, did they leave the body there? And the body was still there when her daughter arrived at the hospital at seven in the morning. The body was on the bed

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still that the woman that had passed away and wrapped in a blanket. As soon as I walked in I saw my mother in tears on the bed and question the patient in the next bed and she told me what had happened. And of course the smell

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was unbelievable and I asked him for a mask and I asked him for something for nausea. I just I couldn't breathe, I couldn't catch my breath. The smell was I went to speak with the head of LBJ Hospital Dr Margo Hilliard dr Hilliard. Were they actually

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removing organs from the body? Absolutely not Marvin. That did not occur and that never could occur. What were they doing? They were probably preparing the body to be viewed by the family members. Okay, well why was the body in there for so long for three? Sometimes

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it takes Marvin, it takes some time for the family members to arrive to view the body and that may have contributed to the body staying in there longer. But that is not our customary practice that normally does not occur. Well when I read the letter, I

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felt something was wrong that harvesting organs in a hospital room just couldn't happen. And of course it didn't happen. But what did happen is just as horrible to leave a dead body in a room with three patients for several hours. It's just not right. I hope

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somebody got the message and this will never never happen again. Marvin's Endler Eyewitness News.