The following excerpts are from The Daily Mail online:
- Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’.
- Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults.
- But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young patients as well as severely disabled newborn babies.
- One doctor has admitted starving and dehydrating ten babies to death in the neonatal unit of one hospital alone.
- Writing in a leading medical journal, the physician revealed the process can take an average of ten days during which a baby becomes ‘smaller and shrunken’.
- The LCP – on which 130,000 elderly and terminally-ill adult patients die each year – is now the subject of an independent inquiry ordered by ministers.
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