New Zealand authorities took temporary custody of a baby this Wednesday (7), whose parents prevented life-or-death surgery because the child was able to receive blood from donors vaccinated against covid-19.
The Auckland Supreme Court has ordered the six-month-old boy, identified only as “Baby W”, to be placed in partial custody, allowing for emergency surgery to correct the heart condition pulmonary valve stenosis.
The surgical procedure was delayed because parents refused to accept a blood transfusion from a donor with the messenger RNA vaccine used in Pfizer and Moderna’s anti-Covid vaccines.
“The important question is whether the proposed treatment is in the (baby’s) benefit,” the court said in a statement. Said.
The child is now under “Court medical care” until the “end of surgery” and recovery by the end of January at the latest.
According to the ruling, parents will remain “for all other purposes” guardians and “will be kept informed of Baby W’s condition and the nature and progress of her treatment”.
The country’s health authorities denied parents’ request to use unvaccinated blood.
New Zealand does not distinguish between donations from vaccinated or unvaccinated people, as there is no extra risk in using blood from people who have been vaccinated.
source: Noticias
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