Lawyers request 12-year-old be moved from Royal London hospital to spend his last moments in private
Photograph: Hollie Dance/PAPhotograph: Hollie Dance/PAThe family of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee have lodged a court application to have him moved to die “with dignity” in a hospice rather than in a hospital.
Archie has been in a coma since he was found unconscious in April and is being kept alive by a combination of medical interventions, including ventilation and drug treatments. Asked what Thursday would be like, she said: “It’s going be awful today. I woke up absolutely sick to my stomach. Like I just feel this hospital have so much to answer for and I don’t really know what else to say today.”
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