Alfie Evans: his parents are fighting to keep him alive SWNSCharlie Gard’s mother is helping a young family to save a toddler given “days to live” by doctors who say that he should be “allowed to die”. Alfie Evans has been in a coma for eight months and experts believe that he could have the same condition as Charlie Gard. His parents, Thomas Evans, 20, and Kate James, 19, have launched a campaign to raise £50,000 to get him treatment abroad. They have 33,000 members on their Facebook page, named Alfie’s Army, and have raised more than £17,000 via an online funding page. The family claim that medical staff at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital have given him “just days to live” and told them to withdraw life support to “allow him to die peacefully”.

Source: The Times August 24, 2017 22:52 UTC