The Administrative Court of Nantes decided on January 22 in favor of Angers University Hospital, authorizing the attention of a 5 -year -old, France reports 3. The girl’s parents had taken justice, evoking “extreme brutality in the occurrence of events and the need, for them, to have an additional period to accept the inevitable.”
In his decision, the Administrative Court said that the lawyer of the parents, Antoine Béguin, also invoked that the decision to stop attention “brings a serious and manifestly illegal participation to the right to fulfill the freedom to express their religious sentences.”
The judge in summary procedures concluded that the child’s health status “has reached a stage of gravity since no therapeutic approach is possible,” “its neurological state is no longer operational and can no longer return to again.” The girl also suffers from a brain tumor of stadium IV and “depends totally on artificial ventilation for survival.”
“Irrazonable Obstination”
The little boy entered the Angers University Hospital on November 12, 2024 of the Le Mans hospital due to intracranial hypertension. He was hospitalized in pediatric resuscitation after the discovery of a brain tumor, but “the intervention was complicated by tumor and intraventricular hemorrhage.”
His state of health continued to deteriorate in particular an autonomous loss of breathing. To justify his desire to stop attention, the Angers Hospital also indicated that the “aggressive tumor” suffered by the child is “impossible to handle the given neurological state (su).”
The hospital has pointed out an “unreasonable stubborn” of the continuation of care. “Now it is a matter of giving a decent end of life to the child,” Laure Jacquez Dubois begged me, which represents the Chu of Angers and a hospital practitioner, head of service to the same establishment. A conclusion followed by the Administrative Court.
According to their lawyer, parents “argue that they do not perceive signs of suffering” of their daughter. However, the pediatric resuscitation service has reported “apparent physical signs of suffering that the body also expresses by muscle spasms, crying, swallowing, sudden movements, an accelerated heart rate despite an altered state of consciousness.”
No damage to fundamental freedoms
According to Béguin, the parents “understood that their son’s death was inevitable” but “they have not yet accepted their deadline”, hence their request for an additional period before extubation. According to them, this approach “does not correspond to the final process of the final life”.
“His son’s extubation would result in his death in the very short term,” said Antoine Béguin before the court.
However, justice considered that this medical decision does not constitute “serious and manifestly illegal damage to fundamental freedoms. In addition, the court concluded that the decision of the Hospital of the University of Angers was taken in a school and rules.
The law of February 2, 2016, known as Claeys-Leonetti’s law, specifies that the treatments are suspended or are not carried out when they only have artificial maintenance of life and seem useless or disproportionate, reminds the VI public. A deep and continuous sedation that causes an alteration of consciousness can be administered to death, associated with analgesia and detention treatments.
Source: BFM TV
