Posted on 07/23/2017 12:31:06 PM PDT by ColdOne
It’s because the United Nations is part of the United Nations child welfare laws. All western countries are part of it except the USA. Thank God we are not. However, there have been instances here where hospitals have taken authority of a child’s care in the hospital over a parent decision.
The child is hooked up to machines helping him to stay alive.
I’m not a heartless monster and do feel bad for the child and parents. I have two children of my own and would do anything if they were in the same situation.
A lot of people here keeping blaming socialized medicine but I guarantee you if we looked we could find similar situations with insurance companies or Medicaid making the same decisions.
Yes, there are cases in this country where hospitals have interceded and have taken control of a child’s health care or lack of.
But, in the case of the 4 y/o child I referred to, I’ve never heard of any case in which a medical team did not work towards another remission. Yes I know personally of other similar cases. The parents are heartbroken watching their little boy get sicker each day. When he relapsed, it was in the very beginning. Each day that goes by makes it so that treatment may no longer be effective. This is disgusting to me. There was a huge ability to help this boy. Perhaps the baby this article is about- not so much. I’m glad for now that we do not have a single payer system.
This should have never gone this far. The parents either were not informed of the laws or they didn’t understand them if they were.
Unfortunately his condition was very bad at four months...his disease fatal under the best of conditions regardless. The Dr. who intervened and gave the family ‘false’ hope, especially when he had not seen the child was in error to have done so. He admitted he did not have all the information.
Again...Charlie was gone weeks ago if not months...
SAd day for all concerned.
They can’t. He needs life support to survive. If they just leave the hospital he will die. If I’m understanding correctly.
I think you are right re Charlie. Husband told me that the US doctor who flew there confirmed that there was nothing he could do. I am at peace about it now. But the NERVE of the EU bureaucrats to decide about that poor baby. And they wouldn’t even let the parents take him home.
Must NEVER happen here.
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