The Italian government intervened after England’s High Court ruled last month it was in the critically ill baby’s “best interests” to be taken off life support.
The Italian government on Monday granted citizenship to a critically ill baby girl from Britain, in a move aimed at preventing doctors from weaning her off life support and allowing her to be moved to Italy.
Indi Gregory, an 8-month-old English girl suffering from a mitochondrial disease considered incurable, has been granted Italian citizenship. Indi’s father, Dean Gregory Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government stepped into the controversy by holding an emergency meeting on Monday which made Gregory an Italian citizen. It was the sole item on the cabinet’s agenda.
Galeazzo Bignami, a junior minister, said the government’s move would allow the baby’s transfer to the Bambino Gesu paediatric hospital, and that without it her life support would have been turned off on Monday.Gregory’s parents will be able to appeal to the Italian consulate in Britain to ask that she be airlifted to Italy, an Italian government source told Reuters, adding however that there was no obligation for Britain to grant the request.
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