The parents of an 8-year-old girl who died last month in India are demanding answers as to the whereabouts of their daughter’s missing organs as well as the rest of the puzzle pieces.
Gurkiren Kaur Loyal, 8-year-old Indian girl from Birmingham, UK, died on April 2 when her family were vacationing in India. She suffered from mild dehydration and was immediately admitted to the hospital for further treatment, as recorded by The Guardian. She was injected with an unidentified liquid syringe, but fell lifeless shortly after.
“I asked, “What is the injection for?” She doesn't need an injection she just needs a saline drip for half an hour or 45 minutes.’ He didn't answer me at all he just gave me a blank look and totally ignored me and just inserted the needle into a syringe and as soon as he pushed it in her neck flipped backwards,” Gurkiren’s mother Amrit said in a comment, according to NBC News.
After her body was returned to England, however, Birmingham pathologists reported that all of her internal organs excluding her eyes were missing. The New York Daily News notes that Gurkiren’s parents never left her side after she passed, implying that her organs could not have been used in time enough for immediate transplants. They believe they were removed to prevent determining her cause of death, and possibly for sell on the market.
Amrit continued in another statement, “I feel extremely angry. The first step is getting her organs back, and then, then, if they are her original organs, we will take legal procedures against the clinic. I want justice."
Gurkiren’s organs are still to be located. The Loyals’ representative Shabana Mahmood has written the matter to the UK Foreign Office to further the investigation on this incident, and that international action be taken.