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This fate affects the whole of Britain: her father describes Indi Gregory as the “strongest little girl and a real fighter”. Despite this, the British High Court this week ordered that the baby, who is just seven months old, be taken off life support. Several British media reported on the tragedy.
The toddler from Ilkeston, Derbyshire, suffers from an incurable mitochondrial disease which has caused numerous symptoms. These include: muscle weakness, kidney damage, blindness, deafness and cardiac arrhythmias.
Indi’s treatment ends
Mitochondria are small structures in a cell. Their main task is the production of energy. In Indi’s case, however, her illness robs the body’s cells of energy.
Until the end, doctors at the Queen’s Medical Center in Nottingham had done everything they could to stop the disease – without success. That is why they asked the court to stop Indi’s treatment.
“It is with pain in the heart” that the responsible judge has now made the decision. The medical consensus was too clear. Indi will not recover. He emphasized the family’s “tangible” love and “almost unimaginable” pain. However, from a medical perspective, the evidence is “unanimous and clear.”
Parents want to appeal
Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, Indi’s parents, continue to oppose the end of the measures and emphasize that their daughter will “prove everyone wrong” and needs “more time”.
You have announced that you want to appeal. They don’t want to give up their child and collect donations online. The couple is ready to “fight for the life of our beautiful daughter Indi,” they say in the call for donations. (no)
Source: Blick
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