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| Jahi McMath: Time running out for US girl 'brain dead' after tonsillectomy | Jahi McMath: Time running out for US girl 'brain dead' after tonsillectomy |
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| A Californian teenager declared brain dead after a routine operation went badly wrong is due to be removed from life support later. | A Californian teenager declared brain dead after a routine operation went badly wrong is due to be removed from life support later. |
| Jahi McMath, 13, had a tonsillectomy this month to treat a sleep disorder, but she began bleeding heavily after surgery and went into cardiac arrest. | Jahi McMath, 13, had a tonsillectomy this month to treat a sleep disorder, but she began bleeding heavily after surgery and went into cardiac arrest. |
| Children's Hospital & Research Center, which carried out the procedure, wants to turn off her ventilator. | Children's Hospital & Research Center, which carried out the procedure, wants to turn off her ventilator. |
| A court order keeping her life support on expires on Monday evening. | |
| Jahi's family believes she is still alive, but the hospital in Oakland, California, has argued in court papers that there is no medical treatment they can give to the teenager because she is "practically and legally" dead. | Jahi's family believes she is still alive, but the hospital in Oakland, California, has argued in court papers that there is no medical treatment they can give to the teenager because she is "practically and legally" dead. |
| 'A dead body' | 'A dead body' |
| An independent paediatric neurologist from Stanford University supported that view. | An independent paediatric neurologist from Stanford University supported that view. |
| A judge at Alameda County Superior Court agreed and issued an order allowing Children's Hospital to remove Jahi from a breathing machine at 17:00 local time on Monday (01:00 GMT on Tuesday). | A judge at Alameda County Superior Court agreed and issued an order allowing Children's Hospital to remove Jahi from a breathing machine at 17:00 local time on Monday (01:00 GMT on Tuesday). |
| The McMaths are hoping that a New York facility will care for their daughter. Two California care homes have already withdrawn offers to accept Jahi. | The McMaths are hoping that a New York facility will care for their daughter. Two California care homes have already withdrawn offers to accept Jahi. |
| It is unclear how the girl's operation on 9 December went so badly awry. She was having her tonsils removed to treat her apnoea, a condition that causes sleepers to experience irregular breathing. | It is unclear how the girl's operation on 9 December went so badly awry. She was having her tonsils removed to treat her apnoea, a condition that causes sleepers to experience irregular breathing. |
| Jahi was declared brain dead three days after surgery. | Jahi was declared brain dead three days after surgery. |
| The family said in a statement at the weekend: "We have our strong religious convictions and set of beliefs and we believe that, in this country, a parent has the right to make decisions concerning the existence of their child: not a doctor... and definitely not a doctor who runs the facility that caused the brain death in the first place." | The family said in a statement at the weekend: "We have our strong religious convictions and set of beliefs and we believe that, in this country, a parent has the right to make decisions concerning the existence of their child: not a doctor... and definitely not a doctor who runs the facility that caused the brain death in the first place." |
| Children's Hospital says it is willing to work with the family to transfer Jahi to another facility, as long as it can legally do so. | Children's Hospital says it is willing to work with the family to transfer Jahi to another facility, as long as it can legally do so. |
| "We need to be able to talk to the other facility to understand what it is they are capable of doing," Cynthia Chiarappa, a hospital spokeswoman, said. | "We need to be able to talk to the other facility to understand what it is they are capable of doing," Cynthia Chiarappa, a hospital spokeswoman, said. |
| "This is not transferring an individual in a vegetative state, but a dead body." | "This is not transferring an individual in a vegetative state, but a dead body." |
| Jahi's family has launched an online fundraising drive, which had collected more than $22,000 (£13,000) by Monday morning, to transfer their daughter to another facility. | Jahi's family has launched an online fundraising drive, which had collected more than $22,000 (£13,000) by Monday morning, to transfer their daughter to another facility. |
| The McMaths' lawyer, Chris Dolan, said he was waiting to hear from a hospital in New York, where officials have been considering the case. | The McMaths' lawyer, Chris Dolan, said he was waiting to hear from a hospital in New York, where officials have been considering the case. |
| "The family is together, and today everybody is praying and being together," Mr Dolan told the Associated Press news agency on Sunday. | "The family is together, and today everybody is praying and being together," Mr Dolan told the Associated Press news agency on Sunday. |