A High Court judge ruled on Thursday that five-year-old Tafida Raqeeb can be moved to the Gaslini children's hospital in Italy.
"Parental rights should never be taken away."
She collapsed shortly afterwards and doctors discovered that blood vessels in her brain were tangled and had ruptured. He said there could be no justification for stopping her parents moving her to the Italian hospital if they wanted to.The hospital said it would not appeal against the decision. "The High Court weighed up clinical and ethical considerations and decided, on the balance of evidence, that life-sustaining treatment should continue.
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