Archie Battersbee's mum vows to give son mouth-to-mouth if he's not given palliative oxygen
05.08.2022 - 07:11
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Archie Battersbee’s mum has vowed to give her son mouth-to-mouth if it means he can spend his final moments "in dignity" at a hospice. Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee have launched a legal bid to be allowed to choose where their 12-year-old spends his final days, after being declared brain stem dead.
They have asked the High Court to have the youngster moved to a hospice after the European Court of Human Rights refused their request to delay withdrawing his life-support.
Archie is currently being kept alive by a combination of ventilation, drug treatments and medical interventions, after being left in a vegetative state since he was found unconscious by his mother in April. He remains at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London, the Mirror reports.
Barts Health NHS Trust has said that they will not begin removing life-support until all legal issues have been resolved.
"If Archie is denied oxygen if and when life-support is removed I will continue to give him oxygen - I pray that the High Court will do the right thing," Ms Dance said. "If they refuse permission for us to take him to a hospice and for him to receive palliative oxygen it will simply be inhumane and nothing about Archie's 'dignity'."
"The whole system has been stacked against us. Reform must now come through Charlie's Law so that no parents have to go through this. We will fight to the end for Archie's right to live."
On Wednesday, the Barts Health NHS Trust explained moving Archie to hospice would come with "considerable risk". They outlined that because he is in an "unstable condition" there is a risk of even moving him within his hospital bed.
It explains: "This means that in his condition, transfer by ambulance to a completely different
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