(ANSA) - Rome, July 25 - Mariella Enoc, president of Rome's
Bambino Gesù children's hospital, said Tuesday that Charlie
Gard's therapy would not have been suspended if he had been at
the Vatican-owned structure.
"I don't know why the English hospital decided to suspend the
child's treatments," Enoc told a news conference.
"I know that here with us this would not have happened... I
don't know if it would have been possible to save Charlie, but I
do know that lots of time was wasted in legal debates that
served for nothing".
On Monday the parents of the terminally ill British
11-month-old gave 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
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"
"The experimental therapy could have been an opportunity for
Charlie Gard but it came too late," said Bambino Gesù expert
Professor Enrico Silvio Bertini.
"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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'Time wasted in debates' president of Vatican-owned hospital