Gregory, an 8-month-old British girl suffering from mitrocondial wasting syndrome, was then transferred to a medical facility to begin procedures to remove life support. This was announced by lawyer Simone Pillon, who, together with ProVita&Famiglia onlus spokesman Jacopo Coghe, is in contact with British lawyers and the family of the little girl.
Doctors at Queen’s Medical Center in Nottingham, who consider Indi Gregory’s condition to be incurable and terminal, took action after the final green light was given by London Court of Appeal judges yesterday, despite opposition from her parents Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth. and the offer, supported by the government of Giorgia Meloni, to transfer the little girl to Bambino Gesù in Rome by granting her Italian citizenship.
The separation of little Indi Gregory’s vital machinery involves a gradual procedure with the reduction of oxygen supply to the little girl, which will accompany her gradual death. The little girl could survive for hours or a few more days, depending on how her body responds, Pillon reported.
Then the sick little girl was “adopted” by Italy
Indi is eight months old and suffers from mitochondrial depletion syndrome. It is a very rare degenerative genetic disease that causes all muscles to fail to develop. The British National Health System (NHS) considers it unethical to administer medical intervention that may cause further pain or harm to the patient in cases where the patient has a life-limiting illness, no treatment/treatment is available or there is no possibility of recovery. Patience and “the best interest of the child”, even the will of the parents, come second.
The High Court in London ordered vital treatments to be suspended. The family instead wanted to transfer him to the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome; The hospital offered to monitor him and provide specialist care.
A legal dispute arose. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni quickly convened the Council of Ministers and the granting of Italian citizenship was approved. It was decided to allow his transfer to Rome. The government also pledged to cover “the costs of health treatments deemed necessary.”
Subsequently, the Italian consul in Manchester, as guardianship judge, issued an emergency ruling declaring the authority of the Italian judge and allowing the treatment plan proposed by the Bambin Gesù hospital in Rome to be accepted and the minor to be transferred.
Word got back to the British justice system, which decided that, against the family’s wishes, treatments would be suspended in hospital or care home rather than at home. British lawyers representing the Gregory family subsequently filed an appeal in cooperation with the non-profit association Pro Vita & Famiglia and the former Northern League senator and lawyer Simone Pillon, who is responsible for the Italian side of the matter. The lawyers first requested that the start time of companionship for the newborn be postponed until the end of his life. However, the start of oxygen separation now appears imminent.
What is Indi mitochondrial wasting syndrome?
The disease from which Indi suffers was discovered in 2013 by researchers from the Aldo Moro University of Bari in collaboration with an Israeli-Palestinian team. Apulian University highlighted the success achieved 10 years ago in a note. Remember, the study was published in the “Journal of Medical Genetics.”
According to the statement of the University of Bari, the pathology that Indi suffers from is called combined D,L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria. This is a genetic pathology caused by mutations in the SLC25A1 gene, which contains the information to produce the mitochondrial citrate carrier protein that allows this important metabolic intermediate to escape from the mitochondria in healthy people. The disease is inherited and is recessive, meaning that it requires the inheritance of two copies of the mutated gene from both parents: if both are healthy carriers of a mutation in the SLC25A1 gene, each child will have a 25% chance of inheriting the disease. being affected by the disease, being a 50% healthy carrier, being 25% healthy and not being a mutation carrier. In the most severe cases, the disease is progressive and manifests itself with a severe form of encephalopathy, such as epileptic seizures from birth, respiratory failure requiring ventilator dependence in the most severe forms, and malformations that prevent the formation of the corpus callosum. It is the thing that connects the two hemispheres of the brain, identified for the first time in the study signed by UniBa.
There is currently no cure for the majority of mitochondrial diseases, and for some severe mutations, such as Indi, there are no treatments available that can slow the course of the disease. One hope is represented by the development of gene therapies. In line with this goal, Palmieri and his colleagues are actively involved in the national research center ‘Gene therapy and development of drugs with RNA technology’, funded by Pnrr, of which the University of Bari is one of the main nodes (Spoke).
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