Mum in High Court fight against NHS to save brain-damaged daughter, plans life-saving trip to Italy
Tafida Raqeeb’s mum Shelina Begum is planning to visit the hospital in Italy that has given her daughter hopeTafida was born with a rare tangle of blood vessels at the back of her head.
The condition went unnoticed until she collapsed in February. She has been on a life support machine since. Doctors at the Royal London Hospital have applied to the courts to turn it off, claiming keeping her alive any longer is futile. Shelina, 39, told The Sun: “The medical team in Genoa has given us hope. In their opinion Tafida is not brain dead, she just needs time.”Man 'who slashed Britain's hardest cop' pictured as officer's family speakBirds Eye may have to destroy 10k tonnes of peas after worker 'wees' on vegTAKE COVERCommuters stuck on trains for six hours as power cut plunges UK into chaosSpecialists believe it could take a year for Tafida’s brain to create new pathways.
But Shelina and husband Mohammed, 45, have been refused legal aid and face selling their home in Plaistow, East London, to pay £180,000 legal bills for a five-day hearing starting on September 9.Tafida was born with a rare tangle of blood vessels at the back of her headParents Shelina and Mohammed have been refused legal for their casea story? Ring The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or
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