Doctors told to treat Charlie until July 10

Doctors have been told to continue providing life- support treatment to a terminally ill baby at the centre of a legal battle to give judges at the European court of Human rights time to analyse the case.

Parents chris Gard and connie Yates are battling to get permission for tenmonth-old charlie, who suffers from a rare genetic condition and has brain damage, to undergo a trial treatment in the Us.

charlie has a form of mitochondrial disease, a condition which causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage.

But specialists at Great ormond street Hospital in London, where he is being cared for, claim that the nucleoside therapy is experimental and that life-support treatment should stop to allow charlie to ‘die with dignity’.

charlie’s parents, who have already lost legal battles in the High court, court of Appeal and supreme court in London, hope that judges in the European court of Human rights in strasbourg will come to their aid.

their lawyers filed detailed legal arguments yesterday and the strasbourg judges say they will treat charlie’s case with the ‘utmost urgency’.

supreme court justices ordered that Great ormond street keep providing lifesupport treatment until July 10.