I expect lots of people have heard recently in the press about something called the Liverpool care pathway. If you haven't, it basically entails the withdrawal of drugs, fluid and life supportive measures to people who are at the end of life but controversially also includes people who have had strokes who would survive but need huge levels of care.
Now sick babies go on death pathway: Doctor's haunting testimony reveals how children are put on end-of-life plan.
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
Are babies being denied life saving treatment? Or are they only being denied life prolonging treatment? Do fluids constitute life prolonging treatment? or are fluids as with oxygen a natural and necessary requirement of life and should never be denied?
Sorry it's the mail but I picked it up this morning because this is on the front page. [NOTE ADDED BY MNHQ: some posters, particularly bereaved parents, may find the contents of this article distressing]www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2240075/Now-sick-babies-death-pathway-Doctors-haunting-testimony-reveals-children-end-life-plan.html