{"id":309753,"date":"2011-03-14T22:56:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T22:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/14\/end-of-life-row-baby-moved-to-us\/"},"modified":"2011-03-14T22:56:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T22:56:49","slug":"end-of-life-row-baby-moved-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/14\/end-of-life-row-baby-moved-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"End-of-life row baby moved to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"67.7290836653\">\n        \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>14 March 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>18:56 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Parents of a terminally ill Canadian boy have transfered him to a US Catholic hospital after an Ontario court ruled doctors could remove a breathing tube keeping him alive.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Maraachli, aged one, is in a vegetative state with a severe neurological condition and will not recover, Canadian doctors say.<\/p>\n<p>An Ontario hospital refused his parents&#8217; request for a tracheotomy they say will prolong his life by six months and allow him to die at home.<\/p>\n<p>A Catholic hospital in the US city of St Louis will review his case, a family lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>&#8216;Die comfortably&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Joseph had been at London Health Sciences Centre since October, where doctors say he will die as soon as he is removed from a ventilator. The Ontario hospital had agreed to transfer him to the family home before doing so.<\/p>\n<p>But the child&#8217;s family said removal of the ventilator would cause him to choke painfully to death, and asked doctors to perform a tracheotomy that they said would allow him to die more comfortably and slowly.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital has said the procedure is not medically necessary and will not treat the boy&#8217;s condition and refused to authorise it.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph was flown to the Cardinal Glennon Children&#8217;s Hospital in St Louis in the US state of Missouri on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer on a private jet was sponsored by Priests for Life, a US anti-abortion group whose head said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.priestsforlife.org\/pressreleases\/3540-father-frank-pavone-of-priests-for-life-leads-covert-mission-to-rescue-baby-joseph-\">statement<\/a> he had &#8220;won the battle against the medical bureaucracy in Canada&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph&#8217;s parents, Moe Maraachli and Sana Nader, had defied a Canadian court&#8217;s order to allow doctors to remove the boy&#8217;s breathing tube.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-12740663\" title=\"End-of-life row baby moved to US\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">End-of-life row baby moved to US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 14 March 2011 Last updated at 18:56 ET Parents of a terminally ill Canadian boy have transfered him to a US Catholic hospital after an Ontario court ruled doctors could remove a breathing tube keeping him alive. Joseph Maraachli, aged one, is in a vegetative state with a severe neurological condition and will not recover, Canadian doctors say. An Ontario hospital refused his parents&#8217; request for a tracheotomy they say will prolong his life by six months and allow him to die at home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>End-of-life row baby moved to US - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/14\/end-of-life-row-baby-moved-to-us\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"End-of-life row baby moved to US - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"14 March 2011 Last updated at 18:56 ET Parents of a terminally ill Canadian boy have transfered him to a US Catholic hospital after an Ontario court ruled doctors could remove a breathing tube keeping him alive. 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