The Italian government has sent an ambulance on a military plane to take a newborn baby out of a hospital in Bristol in a highly unusual move after the boy’s parents said there was nothing more in what doctors could do for the child.
A baby less than a month old has not yet given a name. Sky News reports that his parents are from a mixed Italian-Nigerian family, but live in the United Kingdom.
The Italian government says the child has a “severe heart deformity” and intervened after the Royal Bristol Children’s Hospital was unable to offer further treatment.
Simone Pilon, an Italian lawyer and former senator, said it would create the path for children to receive treatment abroad “without taking the parents to court, as we have seen in cases previously high profile. “
Pilon, who has previously stepped in to help parents get their children to Italy for treatment, said it is an important issue for childcare.
“I believe that if we find a way to work together for the benefit of the children, we all win; we are not losing,” he told the channel. “We thank the hospital and the British doctors. The family also want to say thank you.”
Pilon said Italian doctors began working on the baby on Wednesday and would continue on Thursday.
The Italian prime minister’s office said that an Air Force C130 landed at Ciampino Airport near Rome at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, with “a newborn Italian citizen who was born in the United Kingdom a couple of days ago .”
The child was transferred to the Bambino Gesu pediatric hospital in Rome.
2024-04-26 12:31:37
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