The Council of State has ruled : the care of Marwa vhave to continue. The discontinuation of treatment for this one-year-old baby, artificial comaat the Timone hospital in Marseille, is at the heart of the conflict between the pediatric resuscitation team at the Timone hospital in Marseille and the parents. The former, believing that Marwa will never be able to get out of this state which they consider irreversible, want the respiratory assistance that allows her to be kept alive to be ended. Parents fight for the life of their daughter, plunged into a deep coma since September 25, 2016, and are ready to move heaven and earth for her medical treatment to be assured.
An uncertain state of health
After several legal twists and turns, it is the Council of State which was seized by the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM). The AP-HM had decided this referral after the administrative court of Marseille (TA) ordered the continuation of care. Badly took them, the doctors obtained a disavowal from the highest administrative court. The latter ordered the continuation of the treatment of the little girl. The Council of State considered that maintaining Marwa’s care was not unreasonable obstinacy, an argument used by doctors to justify stopping treatment.
According to the Council of State, despite the serious neurological lesions of the child, her condition “is not, in the state of the investigation, determined with certainty”, ruled the Council, taken up by Le Monde. A decision that should give hope to Marwa’s parents.
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