The one-year-old girl from Nice came out of her artificial coma ten days after the court ordered the continuation of care.
Marseille hospitals called on Friday for “calm” and “serenity” around the situation of little Marwa, a one-year-old baby whose parents are fighting to keep her cared for.
To “preserve medical secrecy”, the Public Assistance – Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM), indicated that it would not disclose “any information on the state of health of the child”. “In this very difficult and trying context, the medical and nursing teams aspire to be able to continue the care of all their small patients in a climate of calm and serenity”, she adds.
This comment comes a few days after the little girl from Nice came out of her coma. Plunged into an artificial coma since September 25, she woke up on Tuesday, her father announced in a video disturbing on his Facebook page “Jamais sans Marwa”.
Marseille hospitals ask “anyone wishing to support the family not to come spontaneously to the pediatric intensive care unit in order to preserve the peace of the family, other families of patients and not to disrupt the work of the teams” , adds the AP-HM press release.
Unanimous decision
The one-year-old girl was admitted to the Timone hospital in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) more than a month ago, after being hospitalized at the Nice University Hospital for a devastating infection, followed severe neurological and cardiac disorders. The Marseille medical college had unanimously decided to disconnect the respiratory system that keeps the little girl alive, convinced that Marwa would suffer from serious disabilities if she woke up.
A stop of care refused by the family who had seized the administrative court, which acceded, in a provisional way, to the request of the family and demanded that a medical expertise be carried out by two neurologists and a neuropediatrician. These experts will have to comment on the irreversible neurological lesions, the prognosis of the child and on the interest of putting an end to the therapeutic relentlessness, or on the contrary to continue the active therapies. It is on the basis of their conclusions that justice must ratify or not the decision of the Marseille team.
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