The parents of a 5-year-old girl in
a coma at the Royal London Hospital after a cerebral aneurysm
ruptured have been urged not to pull the plug on her.
The child is in intensive paediatric care but doctors there
ordered to suspend the treatment, according to La Repubblica
newspaper. Her parents thus wrote to Gaslini pediatric hospital
director Paolo Petralia to ask for a second opinion and then
whether the Genoa facilities would be willing to take her into
their care.
The Genoa hospital created a team of specialists that on July
5 sent a document to their fellow physicians in London and later
engaged in a videoconference with them.
The documents show that the situation is critical, in line
with the assessment of the British doctors.
In Italy, however, life support is not stopped unless the
patient is found to be brain dead, which is not the case.
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