Judge rules for hospice
London: Charlie Gard will spend his final hours in a hospice before the ventilator that keeps him alive is turned off, a judge ruled yesterday, after a harrowing legal battle.
Charlie’s distraught parents Chris
Gard and
Connie Yates had been trying to find a medical team that could look after him in a hospice so they could bid farewell to him just days before his first birthday on August 4.
‘‘It is not in Charlie’s best interests for artificial ventilation to continue to be provided to him, and it is therefore lawful and in his best interests for it to be withdrawn,’’ High Court judge Nicholas Francis said in an order.