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Letter from Spanish hospital saves British baby Charlie Gard's life giving hope for treatment doctors and courts dismissed 
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 @ 10:06 AM

BRITISH toddler Charlie Gard has been given a new hope by Barcelona's Vall d'Hebrón hospital research unit – Great Ormond Street has agreed not to switch off his life support after receiving a letter from scientists showing evidence the experimental treatment his parents want to fund for him can in fact work.

Dr Ramón Martí, head of the neuromuscular and mitochondrial pathology unit at the Vall d'Hebrón Research Institute and his colleage Yolanda Cámara, plus two specialists from the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome, two researchers from the University of Columbia in the USA, and one from the University of Cambridge in the UK have all signed the missive.

 

Read more at thinkSPAIN.com



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