Posted on 04/25/2018 9:52:14 AM PDT by Morgana
Alfie Evans parents are hoping an appeals court today will allow them to take their son to Italy for medical care and treatment. They have an air ambulance standing by ready to transport Alfie to a pediatric hospital in Rome that is ready to take him and provide additional treatment.
However, officials at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital just kicked out two paramedics from the air ambulance and made them leave the premises after they were talking with Alfie’s parents. This is the latest example of the hospital’s lack of care and concern for the 23-month old boy who is dealing with a rare neurological condition.
Here’s more:
Two people believed to be German air ambulance staff have been escorted from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital as the family of Alfie Evans appeal against a court decision preventing him from being taken abroad.
On Wednesday afternoon a man and woman believed to be from a German air ambulance crew were escorted from the Liverpool hospital by police and security staff after being seen speaking to members of the Evans family.
Meanwhile, Pope Francis has put a military helicopter on standby to rush Alfie to Italy pending the appeals court decision today:
Paul Diamond, counsel for the brave toddler’s father, said: “There is a military air ambulance on standby at the request of the Pope.”
The Pope personally intervened earlier this month and has today approved of the use of an air ambulance.
Little Alfie Evans has survived for over 40 hours after a children’s hospital yanked his life support without his parents’ consent. That’s despite the prediction doctors made that Alfie wouldn’t live very long after his life support was removed.
Yesterday, the judge in the Alfie Evans case has officially prohibited his parents from flying the 23-month old boy to Rome Italy to take him to a pediatric hospital that has offered to provide appropriate medical care and treatment for him. Alfie’s parents had hoped to take the little boy to the hospital in order to potentially get treatment that could help his rare degenerative neurological condition.
Today, Alfie Evans’ father Tom Evans says his son’s still fighting and doing well 36 hours later.
He said: ‘He is doing as well as he can, he is fighting. I believe I am getting closer [to taking him home]. He hasn’t had any sign of pain and sustaining life like any other kid for the past 36 hours. It’s totally unexpected.”
“We were told he wouldn’t last five minutes but now here we are 36 hours down the line and he is doing absolutely amazing,” Evans continued in an interview on British television.
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Attorney Paul Diamond, who is representing the family of Alfie Evans, yesterday argued that it is not in Alfie’s best interests to be left at Alder Hey Hospital and that he should instead be flown overseas – with an air ambulance already waiting and Italy also offering him a private jet.
But Justice Hayden ruled that Alfie’s family would not be able to fly him to Italy for treatment and appeared to say that this was the final decision related to his case. He said flying Alfie to Italy could harm his health because, as court testimony indicated, the flight could trigger possible “continuous seizures due to stimulations” of the flight. But Alfie’s parents are concerned Alfie will die if he doesn’t get care and possible experimental treatment in Italy.
Alfie’s parents have appealed that ruling to a British appeals court. Evans said they are appealing the ruling from the judge today banning Alfie from flying to Italy where a Pediatric Hospital has offered proper medical care and treatment as well as potential experimental treatment for his rare neurological condition.
Evans indicated that Alfie is not in any pain and hardly taking any drugs — and he disputed the claim that Alfie should not be able to travel to Italy because of potential seizures, saying that Alfie has not having any seizures and is not on any anti-seizure medication because there was no problem at this time.
Tom Evans also disputed the notion that somehow his family or supporters of his family are causing a disruption for Hospital staff that makes it so it would take three days to discharge Alfie from the hospital, as Alder Hey Children’s Hospital alleged in court today. He says the reality is that Alfie’s family and supporters are having a hard time getting into the hospital to see Alfie and support them because of an intense police presence, whereas hospital staff go in and out as they please.
Evans indicated he is very concerned about Alfie’s lack of food — saying that it has been almost 24 hours since he has had anything to eat and he is just receiving water and fluids. He is worried that hospital staff are attempting to starve Alfie to death in an attempt to prove their contention that Alfie was going to die very quickly after his removal from life support.
The judge in the controversial legal battle over the life and death of Alfie Evans has told the little boy’s parents that they are not able to take him home, for now. Essentially Justice Hayden considers Alfie’s parents a flight risk and worries they will leave the country with the 23-month old boy in tow. After a decision by Italy yesterday, Alfie now has Italian citizenship which should qualify him for being able to leave the country.
If Alfie can’t leave the UK, attorneys for his parents say they want Italian doctors to be able to come to Britain to evaluate and treat Alfie.
A spokeswoman for the Christian Legal Centre, which is assisting Tom Evans and Kate James, said they intended to ask the judge to consider allowing medical experts in Italy to examine Alfie.
She said medics at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool had stopped providing “ventilation support” to Alfie shortly after 9pm on Monday.
But she said Alfie continued to breathe independently.
She said: “Alfie has survived much longer than the doctors predicted, lending support to the request from Alfie’s parents for Alfie to be seen by medical experts in Italy
“An air ambulance is now waiting outside Alder Hey Hospital ready to take Alfie to hospital in Italy.”
An air ambulance arrived today outside the hospital where little Alfie Evans is located. Alfie has breathed on his own and has survived for over 20 hours after the Children’s Hospital yanked his life support.
Alfie has defied doctors’ expectations to this point and his parents are headed back to court to fight for his life further. They are hoping to be able to get life support restored and also want to be able to take him to Italy, which granted him citizenship yesterday.
Today, a British doctors group, The Medical Ethics Alliance, expressed its horror over the treatment of Alfie Evans that it called a “medical tyranny.”
And Italy’s Healthcare Chief has slammed the decisions by UK courts to treat Alfie the way that they have. The President of the Italian National Institute of Health lambasted the UK High Court’s decision yesterday on Alfie Evans’ that resulted it the children’s hospital being allowed to remove life support over Alfie’s parents’ objections.
Alfie’s father confirmed the removal of life support and oxygen in a video at 9:17 p.m. London time. “Alfie’s still here and fighting,” he said.
Pope Francis has repeatedly spoken on Alfie’s behalf and urged that Alfie’s parents be allowed to bring him to Italy.
more for terris list, they just don’t stop
WTHITFS?
I haven’t really followed this case too closely.
I just don’t understand why the hospital is trying so desperately hard to kill one of its patients. They seem to think that particular outcome is their highest priority.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DUCHESS BABY? AWWW ISNT SHE CUTE!
Pointing out the gross hypocrisy here from the elites
The more I hear about this, the more I wonder why they don’t just outright execute the poor child.
Apart from bizzare Leftism and their cult of death, I don’t understand this.
There are bureaucrats who would kill a million people if by doing so they could keep their job, their perks, and their lifestyle.
People all over the world are praying for God’s intervention here.
People all over the world are praying for God’s intervention here.
Ironic..the Liverpool Pathway being implemented in Liverpool.
Liverpool Care Pathway: Controversial 'end-of-life' regime for dying ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/.../liverpool-care-pathway-controversial-end-of-life-re...
Jul 13, 2013 - The use of a controversial end-of-life regime should be phased out, an independent review is likely to say. The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), which is designed to offer a peaceful death for elderly patients who are nearing the end of their lives, can include the withdrawal of medication and food.
I imagine they want to end his life because of the ongoing costs of care.
Make no mistake about it.
But the parents are desperately trying to take him to Italy so that Italian hospitals can shoulder the costs, and there have been massive fund-raising efforts. The UK seems to oppose all of this. It’s not about the money.
For its own survival, the system cannot let this child live. If he goes elsewhere and improves, what can be said of the others who have already lost after being condemned by UK “medical” facilities?
If the royals don’t speak out, the newborn royal is going to be forever tied to this case of child abuse, and it will follow him around like a millstone for the rest of his life.
The royals NEED to distance themselves from the abuses committed by the hospital.
If for no other reason than that, they need to speak out.
Because they don’t care about this kid, but they do care about precedence. They know if they let him go many other Christians will demand the same for their sick kids.
Can’t have that!
I’ll bet if the kid was a Muslim and the parents wanted to fly him to Riyadh they’d pave the way pronto.
It really is anti-Christ.
The only difference between socialism and Naziism is that socialists haven’t used the gun yet.
You are in big trouble in either group. The o'l Emanuel index of right to exist.
It seems as though the hospital and NHS bureaucrats are desperate to block this child from having a chance at survival. Why won’t they simply let the parents take him to other professional medical providers? It’s not as though the parents are trying to take him to witch doctors. Since the hospital claims to be so sure the boy will die, what is their stake in blocking him from having “one last chance”??
It’s as though they want to make certain that he dies in their hospital..... how bizarre is that?
It’s ALWAYS about the almighty £££.
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