It was our agonising job as Charlie Gard's care team to say: enough | Anonymous Read moreThe health worker said Charlie’s case became a distressing soap opera for some commentators that had prolonged the agony of Charlie’s parents. It had also clouded the heart-breaking truth that their son was critically ill and that the hospital was right to conclude it had done everything it could to save him. The family had believed Charlie could still be treated, and questioned the analysis of experts at the hospital. But the hospital was critical of Dr Michio Hirano, an eminent doctor and expert in his field, who had suggested Charlie could still be treated. The hospital criticised Hirano for not declaring earlier his “financial interest” in some of the drugs he wanted to prescribe.

Source: The Guardian August 04, 2017 15:00 UTC