Continuation and (probably) end of the Inès affair. This Friday, January 5, 2018, the Council of State finally validated the cessation of treatments for little Inès (14 years old), plunged into a vegetative state since the summer of 2017.
Reminder of the facts: in June 2017, the teenager – who suffers from an autoimmune neuromuscular disease – was struck by a heart attack and hospitalized at the Nancy University Hospital (54) in a vegetative state.
At the end of July 2017, the medical profession suggested that treatment be discontinued at the end of a collegial procedure: Inès ‘parents then applied to the Nancy administrative court which, on December 7, 2017, validated the doctors’ opinion, considering that more no hope is possible – experts even believe that “the child will never again be able to establish any contact” with those around him.
The Council of State validates the verdict of the medical profession
The parents of the teenager (particularly motivated by religious reasons) then seized the Council of State on December 29, 2017. And it is precisely this one which has just delivered its verdict: “according to the report of the three medical experts delivered at the request of the administrative court of Nancy, the neurological prognosis of the child is “catastrophic”: she is in a persistent vegetative state, unable to communicate with those around her, the irreversible nature of the neurological lesions being certain in the current state science “.
Consequence: the Council of State judges that “in the state of medical science, the continuation of the treatments is likely to characterize an unreasonable obstinacy”. “It is therefore now up to the doctor in charge of the child to assess whether and within what time frame the decision to stop treatment must be executed. A tragic story.
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