Posted on 03/07/2011 9:37:43 AM PST by wagglebee
As I'm sure you know, the now-famous case of Baby Joseph in Canada is becoming critical. He could die in the next couple of weeks if his breathing tube is removed as the hospital and the government intend.
Baby Joseph is only 13 months old and often has difficulty breathing on his own. He needs a procedure called a tracheostomy in order to go home and live under his parents' care. However, the Canadian health care system is refusing to let the family take care of their son -- even though hospitals in the United States have privately said that they would take Joseph in and give him the tracheostomy he needs to survive. U.S. doctors and hospitals who are now familiar with the case are appalled that Baby Joseph hadn't received the tracheostomy 3 or 4 months ago rather than make the baby suffer all this time.
Baby Joseph's parents are pleading with the world for a hospital with the courage to step forward and accept their son for evaluation and treatment. Priests For Life has even agreed to supply medical air transport to and from the facilities. We will support the cost of the hospitalization and after-care including nursing. Home ventilators have also been donated to maintain Baby Joseph if needed.
There are U.S. physicians in Michigan willing to oversee Baby Joseph's outpatient care and assist in weaning him off the home ventilator should it be necessary.
We have yet to find one facility that said it would not perform the tracheostomy on Baby Joseph.
The real problem is that health care providers in the U.S. need Baby Joseph's medical records -- but the Canadian authorities are refusing to release them.
Therefore, I need your help to continue to contact the Canadian authorities so that a proper and humane solution to this problem can be found. We have recently discovered that Canadian law requires the hospital to release these records to Baby Joseph's parents upon request. And to date, they have refused.
This is what is preventing hospitals in the United States from being able to accept Baby Joseph. We need those medical records! And we need them now!
Therefore, I urge you to click here and send an email to the Canadian officials who oversee the London, Ontario hospital requesting that the medical records be released immediately.
We are continuing our search for a hospital in the United States to take Baby Joseph, and they won't do that without the records.
So please send an email to the Canadian authorities -- and at the same time say a strong prayer for Baby Joseph and his parents. Time is running out, so please act now.
Again all you need to do is click on this link and action can be taken in this life-or-death case.
And while you're on your computer, please forward this urgent email to everyone you know, and we may have a strong chance of saving Baby Joseph from a cruel death.
Fr. Frank Pavone
Nationail Director
P.S. There are currently many false reports and rumors in the media that Baby Joseph is in a persistent vegetative state. He's not. He's only 13 months old, and simply isn't getting the care he needs. Any baby would suffer if not given proper care. So please don't listen to the same kind of lies and distortions that caused Terri Schiavo's untimely death.
This is why it so important that the medical records are released so the truth can come out.
It is amazing the lengths the Canadian health care system is going to in order to deny Baby Joseph a chance to live.
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The link did not work when I clicked on it~!!
If they can come to Buffalo, NY hospital I will gladly provide the family with a place to stay wheile they are in town
Links don’t work.
Use the links here, they work (I don’t know what happened, I copied the source):
http://www.priestsforlife.org/alert/index1.aspx?id=12
Is this really about making sure the Canadian doctors/facilities get paid their fees?
Thank you Wagglebee, that did it.
I went to the source and was able to make it work.
It sounds like what is also needed is for some high-powered, PROMINENT lawyer(s) to donate services to his parents to sue/petition the hospital and courts to release these records to which they’re legally entitled.
What's the real story here?
I thought that I read earlier (a couple of weeks ago) that an American hospital refused to take him.
From what I know, the parents can ask for the medical file...
The story is that this child is not covered by any insurance in the United States... And a US hospital would be crazy to admit him as his care will run in the hundred of thousand of dollars...
The truth is that you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
For starters, his parents are asking for a tracheotomy and this WILL NOT cost "hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Secondly, private groups (these would be groups that care more about live than they do about money) have already secured more than enough money to pay for Baby Joseph's care.
Amen ...
Unfortunately, you just misinformed someone.
They can, and they have.
We have recently discovered that Canadian law requires the hospital to release these records to Baby Joseph's parents upon request. And to date, they have refused. ~ Fr. Frank Pavone.
Do you think he's lying? I know he's not.
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