A Clark County District Court ordered a local hospital to return the placenta of a woman who delivered her baby at their facility and had demanded it for apparent medicinal use. Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas refused to relinquish the placenta to Anne Swanson, 30, in April, saying it was a biohazardous waste.
Swanson had wanted to dry up the organ, ground it and get encapsulated for ingestion. But she has now dropped that idea because it was probably too late for it to be of any medicinal use to her.
However, Swanson believes the case would help propagate the awareness about benefits of placenta.
The hospital has been storing the placenta in a freezer after the court ordered to preserve it. It plans to return the placenta to Swanson after completing legal formalities.
