Little English girl Indi Gregory, who suffered from a rare mitochondrial disease and was taken off life support, has died. This was announced by the child’s father. A legal dispute over the baby’s treatment had previously caused a stir. The Pope also prayed for the child.
“My daughter died, my life ended at 1:45 am today. My wife Clare and I are angry, heartbroken and ashamed,” said Dean Gregory, Indi’s father. “The UK Health Service and the courts have not only deprived Indi of her chance to live, but also of her dignity to die in her own home. “They managed to take Indi’s body and her dignity, but they cannot take her soul,” the father said.
The court refused the transfer to Italy
An English appeal court had not allowed Indi Gregory’s transfer to Italy. The Vatican Children’s Hospital “Bambino Gesu” agreed to take the child. The government even granted the eight-month-old child Italian citizenship last week so he could receive treatment.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who made this decision unexpectedly last week, expressed her condolences to the parents. “We did everything we could do. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough. Have a nice trip, little Indi,” Meloni wrote on Faceook.
Died in hospice
Indi Gregory suffered from a rare form of mitochondrial pathology that doctors considered incurable. After English judges refused to accept the parents’ appeal, the little girl was given non-essential treatment at the Queen’s Medical Center in Nottingham and transferred to a hospice for the terminally ill, where she died. The parents wanted life support measures at home to be stopped. But that was also rejected by the court.
On Saturday, the Vatican said the pope was praying for the child: “Pope Francis embraces the family of little Indi Gregory, her father and mother, prays for her and turns his thoughts to all the children who are in these hours.” world are in pain or risking their lives because of disease and war,” said the head of the Holy See press office, Matteo Bruni.
Source: Krone
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