In Marseille, justice has just ordered the Timone hospital to continue the care of a one-year-old baby in a coma pending an expertise.
He doesn’t hide his relief. “ Thanks to justice Is the reaction in The world by Mohamed Bouchenafa following the decision taken Wednesday by the administrative court of Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). The court has just called for the continuation of care for her baby in a coma, thus granting his request and that of his wife.
Before deciding on whether or not to stop treatment, “an expert report will be carried out entrusted to a college of three doctors made up of two neurologists and a pediatric neurologist, appointed by the president of the court”, explained the court, which considers that “many uncertainties remain on the initial pathology of the child, on the after-effects from which it is reached, on the examinations carried out and on its current state”, reported Agence France Presse (AFP).
In the national daily, the 33-year-old man, a VTC driver in Nice, affirms that “all the chances have not been given to Marwa”. “The doctors say it’s no use, that we have to let her go, they talk about therapeutic relentlessness but when I tell her ‘Marwa my daughter’, she starts to move. We just ask that we give her the time to show that she wants to live, ”he says.
Over 70,000 signatures on the Internet
As a reminder, the parents of the one-year-old baby, who launched a petition that collected more than 70,000 signatures on the internet, interpret the baby’s movements, connected to machines, as signs that she “is conscious, moving and (them) recognizes ”. But “the doctors think that she will never be able to breathe on her own and believe that this is sufficient reason to disconnect her within a week”, according to the couple who had seized the administrative court in summary to request the continuation of care.
Marwa was admitted to the Timone hospital on September 25 for a devastating virus and placed in an artificial coma. On November 4, doctors at the Timone hospital had decided to stop the therapeutic treatment and to disconnect the respiratory system keeping the child alive.
In their report justifying their decision, the hospital doctors had noted that the baby’s “state of consciousness” “is difficult to assess but the behavior and the diffuse damage observed on MRI suggest that it is probably greatly altered. “.
Faults attributed to the hospital
However, the administrative court accuses the hospital of not having communicated the entire medical file. “The record of traceability of decisions taken in a collegial manner has a very incomplete motivation”, he underlines, and “divergent indications” were given by the hospital.
Within two months, the experts will have to “pronounce on the irreversible nature of the neurological lesions of the child, on the clinical prognosis and on the interest or not to continue or to implement active therapies”, concludes the court.
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