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To: $Mogul who wrote (21632)7/25/2002 12:38:31 AM
From: Snowshoe  Respond to of 74559
 
Surviving hard times: Argentina re-uses pacemakers

With Argentina suffering a 15% economic contraction, the health minister of the southern province of Chubut authorized hospitals to reuse pacemakers taken from corpses. "People donate organs, so why not pacemakers?" asks Eloy Garcia, the health minister who has recovered four pacemakers and is also looking to reuse bone screws.

online.wsj.com