Doctors interrupt treatment that keeps Indi Gregory alive, baby with incurable disease

Doctors stopped treatment to keep him alive. Indi GregoryA British baby suffering from an incurable disease is at the center of a battle between his parents and the hospital, the group Christian Concern, which supports the couple, announced on Sunday.

Treatment of 8 month old girlwas suspended following the appeal court ruling on Friday“, indicated the Christian Concern Group is a statement.

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The girl’s parents had been fighting for months against British doctors, who recommended interrupting treatment to keep the baby, who suffers from an illness, alive. incurable mitochondrial disease.

The hospital doctors Nottinghamwhere the girl was treated, they argued that continuing treatment was futile and painful, a position contested by Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth.

Friday, the court ruled that treatment should be stopped at a medical centerand not at their parents’ house, as they requested.

“Indi was taken from the hospital by ambulance with a security escort” yet “hospice“, according to Christian Concern, who added that”He stopped breathing last night and then did it again”.

The case took a diplomatic turn with the direct intervention of the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni – whose far-right party promotes traditional Catholic family values ​​- to grant the baby Italian nationality.

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But on Wednesday, an English high court judge ruled that the intervention of Pomegranate It did not modify any of the previous sentences.

There is no cure for mitochondrial diseases, which are genetic and prevent the body’s cells from producing energy.

On Saturday, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruniwhose hospital offered to continue treating the baby, said the Pope Francis “hug the girl’s family Indi Gregoryto her father and mother, pray for them and for her, and direct her thoughts to all the children who, in these same hours, throughout the world, are living in pain or risking their lives because of illness and war”.

Source: Elcomercio

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