A ruling on whether or not Archie Battersbee might be moved from hospital to a hospice to die is predicted on the High Court on Friday morning.
Lawyers for the 12-year-old’s household took half in an hours-long authorized listening to on Thursday, with the courtroom in London sitting till late within the night.
His family members have pledged to “fight to the end” with their last-minute bid to have him transferred to die in a hospice “with dignity”.
Doctors treating the schoolboy for the final 4 months declared Archie to be “brain-stem dead”, prompting a prolonged however in the end failed authorized battle by his household to proceed his life assist remedy within the hope he would get better.
The baby has been in a coma since he was discovered unconscious at his house in Southend, Essex, on 7 April. His mom, Hollie Dance, believes he was collaborating in a web-based problem on the time he grew to become sick. He has not regained consciousness since.
Archie is being saved alive by a mix of medical interventions, together with air flow and drug remedies, on the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London.
Archie’s mom Hollie Dance
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Ms Dance stated she wished her son to “spend his last moments” along with household privately, complaining of a scarcity of privateness on the hospital.
She informed Times Radio on Thursday: “We can’t even have the chance to be in a room together as a family without nurses.”
She added: “There’s absolutely no privacy, which is why, again, the courts keep going on about this dignified death – why aren’t we allowed to take our child to a hospice and spend his last moments, his last days together privately?
“Why is the hospital obstructing it?”
Archie Battersbee, 12, has been in hospital since April
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Barts Health NHS Trust has stated Archie’s situation is just too unstable for a switch and that transferring him by ambulance to a unique setting “would most likely hasten the premature deterioration the family wish to avoid, even with full intensive care equipment and staff on the journey”.
A High Court order made in July requires that Archie stays on the Royal London Hospital whereas his remedy is withdrawn.
A household spokesperson stated a hospice has agreed to take him.
Additional reporting by PA
