Like the whole world, the Pope also prayed for little Indi Gregory
In recent days the whole world, including the web, has rallied around the little girl's family Then Gregory, to pray for her and hope that she would be given another opportunity to live. Little Indi was suffering from a very rare mitochondrial disease.
Despite the opposition of the parents they wanted take her to Italy to the hospital Infant Jesus of Rome, little Indi Gregory was detached from the machinery that allowed her to live. Hospitalized in a hospice, she was given palliative care to accompany her death which unfortunately was not long in coming. At1,45am on Monday 13 November little Indi flew into the sky.
Has been Simone Pillon, lawyer and spokesperson for Pro Vita & Famiglia onlus, to confirm the procedure for detaching vital machinery. This procedure occurs gradually, with reduced support oxygen to gradually accompany her towards death.
The last resort and the transfer to the hospice
The procedure was carried out after the judges ofat the Court of Appeal in London they also rejected the last appeal presented. The little girl of eight months she had to suspend the treatments that were keeping her alive against her family's wishes. For the doctors of Nottingham of her his conditions were incurable and terminal.
The director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, communicated the solidarity of the Pope to the family of Indi Gregory. The Pope has always prayed for them and for all the children who suffer or risk their lives due to illness and war.
Also the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni he did everything to urge and facilitate the transfer of the little girl to Italy. The little girl was hospitalized at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham and the Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital in Rome had offered to take care of her. The Italian Government had granted Italian citizenship to Indi the previous Monday.
I London judgesHowever, they criticized Italy's intervention, stating that English courts know how to evaluate the best interests of the child.
Little Indi flew into the sky
The hospice option, which the parents refused by trying to appeal in every possible way, has become a certainty Friday night. Little Indi was even refused die at home in the apartment in Derbyshire surrounded by the love of her parents three sisters. What remains is a bitter taste in the mouth, the indignation and desperation of 2 parents who fought until the end for their little girl's right to life. Now India rest in peace, far from those who, rightly or wrongly, have claimed the right to decide the ending of this sad story.