HOSPITAL bosses have apologised to parents whose dead daughter's heart got lost in the post.
Staff at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, mistakenly used the first-class post service to send the heart for analysis in January.
Months later, Kathy and Gerald Moyle, of East Budleigh, Devon, were told their daughter's heart had not arrived at its destination in Peterborough.
Mr Moyle, 73, said yesterday he agreed the heart could be sent for analysis following the death of his 38-year-old daughter, Roseline, in October.
He said the family hoped cardiac experts could discover why his daughter died suddenly in her home.
Mr Moyle said he was appalled to learn his daughter's heart was lost in the post.
He said: "I couldn't believe it. The coroner called here and said that it was lost in the post. I couldn't believe it was sent through ordinary post. I don't know how they could have lost it.
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