A week ago, the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance issued a judgment confirming the upcoming closure of the oncology department of Garches hospital. Noting that the continuity of patient care is assured, since they will now be supported by the Ambroise Paré hospital in Boulogne, the court put an end to several months of battle and procedures by confirming the decision taken by the AP-HP.
But this court ruling is not to the taste of parents of sick children, who have decided to seize the Council of State to oppose this decision.
What motivates parents is that this medical unit, unique in France, has the specificity of offering children and adolescents with serious tumors medical therapy based on individualized clinical care. Forty children and adolescents were welcomed there in 2013. Forty children and adolescents in 2013. It mainly treats bone, nervous and muscular system cancers and brain tumors.
The last hope
By seizing the ultimate judge of the administrations, the Council of State, the parents play their last card, hoping that it will deliver a different opinion. The lawyers of the Ametist association, who represent the parents, explained that they had high expectations of the highest legal body of French administrative law. Because if the closure was confirmed by the Council of State, the parents could no longer continue this fight at the national level. It would then only be necessary to file an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights.