Life support is disconnected from Indi Gregory, the eight-month-old British girl with an incurable disease
Doctors at the Queen's Medical Center hospital in Nottingham (United Kingdom) have removed the life support from Indi Gregory, the eight-month-old British girl who suffers from an incurable disease and whose parents have launched a legal battle to continue her treatment and keep her alive, the organization Christian Concern, which supports the little girl's family, reported this Sunday.
Finally, according to The Guardian, the British justice system has rejected the appeals presented by the girl's parents, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, for specialists to continue treating their daughter, so she has been transferred from that hospital to a hospice. for the terminally ill.
Specifically, the Superior Court ruled that limiting the girl's treatment would be legal, and that doing so would also benefit the minor.. Last Friday, three other judges of the Court of Appeals rejected the girl's transfer home, determining that life-sustaining treatment could only be removed in a hospital or palliative care center, not in the family home.
Little Indi was born on February 24 with mitochondrial disease, a genetic condition considered incurable.. Since then, specialists at Queen's Medical Center said the baby was dying, and that the treatment she was receiving was painful and useless, but her parents never agreed.
It has only been six days since the Government of Italy urgently granted Indi Italian nationality, precisely to prevent British doctors from disconnecting her, and thus allow her to be transferred to Rome to continue receiving treatment.
However, judges at the High Court in London denied her transfer, stating that moving to Italy was not in the girl's best interests and calling the intervention of Italian consular officials “completely wrong.”
The Pope asked to pray for Indi
The case of Indi Gregory also reached the ears of Pope Francis, who this Saturday asked to pray for her. “Pope Francis embraces the family of little Indi Gregory, her father and mother, prays for them and for her, and directs his thoughts to all the children who at these same hours around the world are living in pain or risk his life because of illness and war,” declared the director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni.
The Pope has intervened several times in the past in similar cases. On April 15, 2018, he had entrusted to the prayers of all Vincent Lambert and little Alfie Evans and other people who live “in a state of serious illness, medically assisted for basic needs.”