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\n 22 March 2011<\/span>
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A US hospital has performed a tracheotomy on a terminally ill Canadian infant, which his parents said would allow him to die in comfort.<\/p>\n

Joseph Maraachli, aged one, is in a vegetative state with a severe neurological illness and will die without a ventilator, doctors say.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center said its doctors had deemed the operation “medically appropriate”.<\/p>\n

A hospital in the baby’s native Ontario had refused to perform the surgery.<\/p>\n

“It is our hope that this procedure will allow Joseph and his family the gift of a few more months together and that Joseph may be more comfortable with a permanent tracheotomy,” the hospital in St Louis in the US state of Missouri said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The hospital said the baby, who is unable to breath without a ventilator, is expected to spend seven to 10 days in intensive care, then move to a specialty paediatric hospital before making the journey back to Windsor, Ontario.<\/p>\n

Joseph was transferred to Cardinal Glennon hospital last week.<\/p>\n

Since October he had been at Ontario’s London Health Sciences Centre, where doctors said he would die as soon as he was removed from a ventilator. The hospital had agreed to transfer him to the family home before doing so.<\/p>\n

But the child’s family said removal of the ventilator would cause him to choke painfully to death, and sought a tracheotomy that they said would allow him to die more comfortably and slowly.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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