(ANSA) - Rome, July 25 - Professor Enrico Silvio Bertini of
Rome's Bambino Gesù children's hospital said Tuesday that there
was not time for an experimental therapy to save Charlie Gard.
"The experimental therapy could have been an opportunity for
Charlie Gard but it came too late," said Bertini.
On Monday the parents of the terminally ill British
11-month-old have given up their legal battle to have their son
treated abroad.
Earlier in July, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told
Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano that legal reasons prevented
Britain from allowing the family to take up an offer from the
Vatican-owned Bambino Gesu' hospital to try to cure the child.
The hospital had offered to help Gard's mother Connie Yates
and her husband Chris Gard after Pope Francis said treatment
should be provided "until the end".
"Unfortunately, it has emerged that it is impossible to start
the experimental therapeutic plan in the light of the clinical
evaluation... because of the seriously compromised condition of
little Charlie's muscle tissue," said Bertini, the head of
Bambino Gesù's muscular and neurodegenerative illnesses
department.
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Parents of terminally ill child gave up legal battle