Fargo hospital facing complaints over pigs
MeritCare Medical Center’s use of sedated live pigs in trauma training classes has drawn a complaint from a nonprofit group. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is asking the federal Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to investigate.
FARGO (AP) — MeritCare Medical Center’s use of sedated live pigs in trauma training classes has drawn a complaint from a nonprofit group.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is asking the federal Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to investigate.
Fargo’s MeritCare offers Advanced Trauma Life Support courses for doctors. The classes use human cadavers, non-human technology and animals for the sessions, which include surgical procedures.
MeritCare spokeswoman Carrie Haug said the hospital’s classes follow requirements of the American College of Surgeons, which allows animal use.
The complaint said alternatives are available. The nonprofit group said its survey of other medical facilities found more than 90 percent used training models that don’t involve animals.
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