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Charlie Gard treatment must continue until next week, court rules | |
(35 minutes later) | |
Terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard must continue to receive life-support treatment until Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights has said. | 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. | 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 to undergo a trial in the US, but London specialists believe he has no chance of survival. | |
The European court wants until Tuesday to consider the case. | |
Judges in Strasbourg, France, ruled that Charlie should receive treatment while they look at paperwork in the case. | |
The court said this type of interim measure was exceptional, when the applicants would face a "real risk of irreversible harm". | |
A ECHR spokeswoman said Charlie's parents wanted a panel of seven judges to analyse the case in detail. | |
Charlie has been in intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October last year. | 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. | 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 up and down because he is on a machine that does it for him. | |
Specialists believe the US trial is experimental and will not improve his quality of life, and therefore he should be allowed to die with dignity. | |
Charlie's parents have exhausted all legal options in the UK. | 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On Tuesday, the High Court ruled that life-sustaining treatment could be withdrawn, and on Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected the parents' appeal against that decision. | On Tuesday, the High Court ruled that life-sustaining treatment could be withdrawn, and on Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected the parents' appeal against that decision. |
'Not a cure' | |
Charlie is thought to be just one of 16 children in the world to suffer from mitochondrial depletion syndrome. | |
His parents have managed to raise £1.3m on a crowdfunding site to pay for the US treatment and to get him to the country safely, as a specialist plane and nurses are needed. | |
The American doctor who has agreed to treat Charlie has previously told the High Court the six-month therapy would be "treatment but not a cure". | |
The neurologist who would oversee the treatment told the court that while Charlie was in the "terminal stage" of his illness, treating him would be compassionate. | |
He added that there could be a meaningful improvement to his brain function meaning that he might be able to interact and smile. |