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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Jade Culver

Hospital frozen in time after being abandoned with blood samples left on wards

Photos from inside a hospital frozen in time since it shut 15 years ago show wards packed with equipment, blood samples, syringes and even a set of shrivelled lungs.

Puerta De Hierro Hospital in Madrid, Spain, first opened in 1964 and closed just 43 years later when a new hospital by the same name opened nearby, replacing medical care and an A&E ward in the same area.

The old hospital remains largely in the same state it was when it shut, with more than 50 per cent of the hospital still filled with medical equipment.

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