In England, parted with the baby, for the salvation of which the Pope spoke
'15.05.2018'
Source: with the BBC
About two hundred people joined the funeral procession of 2-year-old Alfie Evans, who died in London.
The parents of the baby wanted to send him to Rome for treatment, Pope Francis also spoke out for saving his life, but the British court made another decision, writes with the BBC.
A two-year-old boy with a brain damage died on April 28, after doctors turned off a respirator that supported his life.
People gathered outside Goodison Stadium in Liverpool, some wearing T-shirts that read "The Boy Who United the World."
Toy soldiers were depicted on a white coffin, and the words "fighter" and "our hero" were laid out in white flowers on the roof of the hearse.
Alfie Evans was born in May 2016. He was admitted to the Alder Hay Children's Hospital in Liverpool at the age of 6 months after several seizures and remained there until his death.
The child suffered from a rare neurodegenerative disease, British doctors decided that it was impossible to save his life and wanted to disconnect the boy from life support systems, but Alfie’s parents refused to admit that the disease was incurable. The child was in semi-comatose state for over a year.
The world paid attention to the case of Alfie Evans after the Pope supported the family. The child’s father obtained an audience and asked Pope Francis to save his son.
After that, the Pontiff made several publications in his Twitter microblog with a call to save the boy.
The child was ready to be admitted to the clinic in Italy for treatment, and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to grant Italian citizenship to Alfie Evans in the hope that this would facilitate his immediate dispatch to the clinic in Rome.
However, the High Court of London forbade the removal of the child for treatment abroad, and this decision was not appealed against in the appeal. According to the results of the court proceedings, the baby was turned off the installation of artificial respiration, which supported his life. He died a week after turning off the apparatus, not having lived ten days before his biennium.
