The Canadian hospital at the center of the controversy over the Baby Joseph case, has been receiving threats sent via email and phone calls, reported the Toronto Sun. Many of these threats have been said to come from the U.S. As a result, the London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario, has since beefed up its security and issued a press release, which read: “We have urged our staff and physicians to report to us any concerns they have,” according to the article. Fox News
The hospital is working with police to protect their staff. The problem stems from Joseph Maraachli, 13 months old, who is currently kept alive by a respirator, was denied a transfer to a Michigan hospital to undergo a tracheotomy. The boy suffers from a rare progressive neurological disease which, Canadian doctors say, has left him in a vegetative state beyond recovery.
The hospital didn’t comment on the report about the number of threats it received nor the security steps that were taken. But no individual has received a direct threat, said the London police Deputy Chief Ian Peer in the report. Many of the threats have come from the US.
A spokesman for Maraachli’s family told FoxNews.com the family is “working on an appeal” to the Michigan hospital’s decision. The hospital declined to comment on “any matters surrounding the case.” Canadian health care allocation officials already ruled that Joseph had to be taken off life support and allowed to die in the hospital.
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/ 02/28/2011Update
Canadian Hospital Agrees to Let Boy in Vegetative State Die at Home
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/ 03/14/2011EXCLUSIVE: ‘Baby Joseph’ Gets Second Chance at Life in U.S.
The baby who was hours from being pulled off life support at his Canadian hospital has been rescued by the national director of Priests for Life and taken to the U.S. for treatment.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/13/baby-joseph-gets-second-chance-life/#
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/ 04/21/2011‘Baby Joseph’ Returns Home to Canada
The child known as Baby Joseph who is at the center of an end-of-life debate is now home.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/21/baby-joseph-returns-home-canada/
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/ 09/28/2011‘Baby Joseph’ Dies in His Canadian Home Surrounded by Family
The baby who in March was hours from being pulled off life support at a Canadian hospital but was rescued by a pro-life group that brought the boy to the U.S. for treatment, died Tuesday night in the comfort of his own home in Windsor, Ontario.
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