Parents of terminally ill Charlie Gard have returned to court to request permission to take Charlier home from the hospital to die, CNN reports.
The Spokesman for the family Alison Smith-Squire has said the Court will decide on the terms and conditions surrounding Charlie’s death after the parents had gone back and forth with the family over when and where their son would be taken off life support.
The parents of the Chris Gard and Connie Yates gave up months of fighting to take Charlie to be treated by Dr. Michio Hirano, a professor of neurology at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York.
In a statement, London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital accused Doctor Hirano of giving the parents false hope, and that it was surprising that Hirano had a financial interest in the treatment he was offering. “When the hospital was informed that the Professor had new laboratory findings causing him to believe NBT would be more beneficial to Charlie than he had previously opined, GOSH’s hope for Charlie and his parents was that that optimism would be confirmed,” said the hospital statement.
According to CNN, the hospital also accused the doctor of not reading Charlie’s medical records before prescribing a treatment. “Further, GOSH was concerned to hear the Professor state, for the first time, whilst in the witness box, that he retains a financial interest in some of the NBT compounds he proposed prescribing for Charlie”, it said.
Charlie Gard would turn one year old on August 4.
