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Charlie Gard treatment must continue until next week | |
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Terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard must continue to receive life-support treatment until Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights has said. | |
His parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, have launched a final legal challenge at the European court after their Supreme Court challenge failed. | |
They want the 10-month old, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, to undergo a therapy trial in the US. | They want the 10-month old, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, to undergo a therapy trial in the US. |
Doctors treating Charlie say the proposed therapy is experimental. | |
Specialists believe Charlie has no chance of survival, or even improvement in his quality of life, and should be allowed to die with dignity. | |
The European court in Strasbourg, France, has ruled that Charlie should receive treatment while it looks at paperwork in the case. | |
It said this type of interim measure was exceptional, when the applicants would face a "real risk of irreversible harm". | |
Charlie has been in intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October last year. | |
He has mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare disorder that affects the genetic building blocks that give energy to cells. | |
Doctors say he cannot hear, move, cry or swallow and that his lungs only go and up and down because he is on a machine that does it for him. | |
Charlie's parents have exhausted all legal options in the UK. | |
On Tuesday, the High Court ruled that life-sustaining treatment could be withdrawn, and on Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected the parents' appeal against that decision. |