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Charlie Gard: Parents' appeal for US treatment bid fails | Charlie Gard: Parents' appeal for US treatment bid fails |
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The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the parents of sick baby Charlie Gard, over plans to take him to the US for treatment. | |
Chris Gard and Connie Yates want the 10-month old, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, to undergo a therapy trial. | |
His mother broke down and screamed as the decision was announced. | |
Charlie can stay on life support for 24 hours to give the European Court of Human Rights a chance to give a ruling. | |
He has been in intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October last year. | |
The hospital said therapy proposed by a doctor in America is experimental and that Charlie's life support treatment should stop. | |
Charlie has mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare disorder that affects the genetic building blocks that give energy to cells. | |
The family division of the High Court agreed two months ago that the hospital could withdraw Charlie's life support. | |
His parents have raised more than £1.3m through an internet appeal, in the hope they could take him to America for an experimental treatment. | |
Specialists in the US had offered a therapy called nucleoside. | |
Katie Gollop QC, leading Great Ormond Street's legal team, said the case was "sad" but not "exceptional". | |
She said the couple seemed to be suggesting that "parents always know best". | |
"Fundamentally the parents don't accept the facts," she said. "They don't accept that nucleoside therapy will be futile." | |
The court had earlier heard how Charlie could not could see, hear, move, cry or swallow. | |
Ms Gollop added: "He is on a machine which causes his lungs to move up and down because his lungs cannot go up and down. | |
"Charlie's condition affords him no benefit." | |
Following the ruling Ms Yates screamed outside court: "How can they do this to us?" | |
"They are lying. Why don't they tell the truth?", she said. | |
Charlie's life support machine will continue until Friday at 17:00 BST to give the parents a chance to hear if they can take their case to the European Court of Human Rights, the court said. |