Charlie Gard’s mother meets world experts to discuss son’s condition

The mother of terminally-ill infant Charlie Gard has met two international experts at Great Ormond Street Hospital to discuss the 11-month-old’s condition.

The meeting, which lasted more than five hours, was also attended by medics from the London hospital.

It came a day after Charlie was examined by Michio Hirano, a professor of neurology at Columbia University in New York, who flew to the UK to see him.

The boy’s parents Chris Gard and Connie Yates want a judge 0 Connie Yates wants her son to undergo a therapy trial in US to rule that their son, who suffers from a rare genetic condition and has brain damage, should be allowed to undergo a therapy trial overseen by Dr Hirano in the US.

A spokesman for the couple said the family would not be commenting on the meeting “as this is a judicial matter” and they do not wish to say anything that could potentially harm Charlie’s case.

Dr Hirano, who has claimed an experimental drug could potentially save Charlie, attended yesterday’s meeting with a second international expert who is subject to media reporting restrictions.

They were joined at the meeting by the Great Ormond Street team currently caring for Charlie, his mother and an independent chairman, a hospital spokesman said.

Dr Hirano has full access to Charlie’s medical records.