Parents win battle: Court allow to take girl to Italy
The parents of a severely disabled girl have won a High Court life-support fight to take her to Italy for treatment.
Tafida Raqeeb was a healthy four-year-old girl until a blood vessel in her brain burst on February 9 this year, leading doctors to give her only 24 hours to live.
Despite defying their prognosis and making some signs of improvement on a ventilator over the last seven months, doctors at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel said the damage was permanent.
Tafida's parents' Shelina Begum and father Mohammed Raqeeb argued that she should be flown out to Gaslini hospital in Italy.
Specialists at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel had said the damage is permanent and that there is no chance of recovery.
Tafida's parents, from Newham in East London, had ...