Hospital breaching girl's religious rights in life-support row, court told

Parents of five-year-old Tafida Raqeeb want to take her abroad for treatment

An NHS hospital’s refusal to allow the parents of a seriously ill five-year-old girl to fly her to Italy for treatment is in breach of her and her parents’ rights to religious beliefs and EU free movement law, a court has heard.

Tafida Raqeeb has been in hospital since sustaining a traumatic brain injury in February and is on a life-support machine at Royal London hospital. Gaslini children’s hospital in Genoa is willing to continue to treat her but doctors in London believe it would be against her best interests and she should be removed from life support.

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2LzSs4U