Police are estimating that body parts recently found at a living resources recovery center in Incheon are likely medical waste, and it has been learned that a nursing hospital in the area informed police of this.
According to Incheon Yeonsu Police Station on the 18th, an official at a nursing hospital in Jung District, Incheon, reported to police that day that part of a person's leg found on the 10th at the Southern Region Metropolitan Living Resources Recovery Center in Songdo-dong, Yeonsu District, Incheon, was presumed to have been discarded by the hospital.
Under the current Waste Management Act, medical waste, including human tissue, must be collected and transported separately from other waste in dedicated containers, but it was said that a cleaning staff member mistakenly threw it away as general waste.
At the hospital, the leg of a woman in her 80s who was undergoing treatment became necrotic and was amputated, and the patient is known to be alive.
Police urgently requested an analysis from the National Forensic Service to confirm whether the patient's genetic profile matches the leg that was found. If the genetic information matches, police plan to investigate the hospital on suspicion of violating the Waste Management Act.