The Judicial Conflict over the 30 Legs Stranded for a Year at Santiago Airport in Chile

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In September 2024, he landed at Santiago de Chile airport a cargo plane with 30 human legs coming from the United States. A year later, they continued in the warehouses of the air terminal. The Surgical Medical Training Center SpA (CEMQ), dedicated to the training and improvement of health professionals, bought and imported the cadaveric material to use them in its courses. The Undersecretary of Public Health stopped his entry into the South Ame…

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The import of the limbs emerged as an option to face the shortage of donations of corpses in the country. However, the shipment was retained, which initiated a legal process that remains unresolved. This unusual article found: 30 human legs have been held for a year at Santiago airport was originally published in El Diario de Antofagasta.

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More than a year stored in a warehouse remains a shipment with 30 human legs inside Santiago Airport. According to the information provided by El Mercurio, the impediment to entry occurred in September 2024, when the Undersecretary of Public Health estimated that “the possibility of importing samples of corpses for educational purposes is not warned in the current regulations.” The import of the material was produced by the Surgical Medical Trai…

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They were imported for medical education and are not allowed to leave customs.