Despite reported meetings yesterday between Alder Hey Hospital staff, MEP Steven Woolfe and Alfie's parents that seemed to signal the hospital would consider allowing Alfie to be treated abroad, this was posted by his mother last night.
The family's lawyer has sent a letter to the hospital indicating that a hospital in Milan is willing to offer a second medical opinion and they expect the Vatican's hospital to do the same shortly. According to the mother's Facebook post, they have company willing to transport him as required.
One really has to question the motives of Alder Hey at this point. No one looking in from the outside calls what they are doing anything other than the most severe form of healthcare rationing imaginable. Why would they so vigorously oppose another facility caring for and examining the child? Who is so certain of their own infallible judgement that they would prefer to suffocate a child rather than allow a fresh look at his condition? Terrifying.
Their drive to control the language by calling the withdrawal of life sustaining treatment 'palliative care" should also be roundly rejected. What they are proposing is as compassionate as a frustrated caregiver holding a pillow over the face of an elderly, infirm patient to relieve themselves of the burden of care.
This is not healthcare. It is quite possibly the most barbaric form of resource management we have witnessed in a developed nation. Alder Hey should absolutely release Alfie to the facilities in Italy that have extended an offer. All they are really seeking is an empty hospital bed and releasing him preserves life and opens up their scarce resources.
When anti-Christ people, in collusion with their government, are allowed to remove Godly morality from the nation the people of that nation are then taught and forced by government to accept the morality established by mortal man. The UK is further along in that process than the US; but the US is close behind and moving quickly! The issue in the UK with this child and family is exactly what goes along with socialized health care or sometimes referred to as universal health care; more recently here; Obamacare. It sounds great; everyone has free healthcare; but something that seems to good to be true usually is! When the government takes over healthcare the government controls the healthcare you receive; you may agree with the government's choice for your care but the choice is never yours. Proponents of government healthcare will say what is happening in the UK with this child and family could never happen in the US. The truth is that statement is made out of ignorance or an outright lie! While vacationing in south Texas three years ago my wife and I met a couple from Canada and I asked about the socialized healthcare system they have. He replied that it worked well, saying; "I needed heart by-pass surgery and was only on the waiting list for 6 months". His wife Mary corrected him to say it was just a little over 3 months. They thought that was good because they did't know there was anything better! Government may have opined that by requiring the wait time he might die and they would not have to pay the cost of surgery!