'Time is running out' to find British boy taken from hospital by parents
Saturday, August 30, 2014 @ 7:17 PM
A BRITISH boy suffering from a brain tumour has been snatched from Southampton General Hospital by his parents, and UK police searching for him on the Costa del Sol say it is 'vital he is found today' (Saturday).
Wheelchair-bound Ashya King, five, whose mother and father are said to be Jehova's Witnesses, took their son from the ward, where he was being fed through a tube by a machine, on Thursday without doctors' permission.
He has recently undergone surgery to remove the tumour and is unable to communicate verbally, as well as being mostly paralysed.
Medics are very concerned Ashya's parents do not have enough batteries to keep the feeding apparatus running and that it will cease to work by the end of today, meaning his life is in danger.
The battery is not easy to change when it runs down as it forms an integral part of the machine – rather like an iPhone – and the apparatus has to be taken apart to get it out and put a new one in.
It is normally plugged into the mains and cannot run for very long on a battery – this is only used where the machine has to be unplugged, for example if the patient needs to go to the bathroom or move between wards.
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