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Current Events => Political Ammunition => Nationalized Health Care and Its Potential Horrors => Topic started by: Chris_ on December 01, 2012, 11:19:03 PM

Title: National Health Service: Sick children sent home to die
Post by: Chris_ on December 01, 2012, 11:19:03 PM
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Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’. Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults. But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young patients as well as severely disabled newborn babies.

One doctor has admitted starving and dehydrating ten babies to death in the neonatal unit of one hospital alone.

Bernadette Lloyd, a hospice paediatric nurse, has written to the Cabinet Office and the Department of Health to criticize the use of death pathways for children.

‘I witnessed a 14 year-old boy with cancer die with his tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth when doctors refused to give him liquids by tube. His death was agonizing for him, and for us nurses to watch. This is euthanasia by the backdoor.’

The investigation, which will include child patients, will look at whether cash payments to hospitals to hit death pathway targets have influenced doctors’ decisions.
Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2240075/Now-sick-babies-death-pathway-Doctors-haunting-testimony-reveals-children-end-life-plan.html)
Title: Re: National Health Service: Sick children sent home to die
Post by: seahorse513 on December 02, 2012, 08:52:24 AM
Are you surprised?? NHS denied my great Aunt, for payment of her cataracts...She ended up going private...This happens quite a bit...
Title: Re: National Health Service: Sick children sent home to die
Post by: Zathras on December 02, 2012, 10:57:39 AM
And if the libs have their way this will be coming soon to America.
Title: Re: National Health Service: Sick children sent home to die
Post by: CG6468 on December 02, 2012, 05:05:20 PM
And if the libs have their way this will be coming soon to America.

Sooner than you can even imagine.
Title: Re: National Health Service: Sick children sent home to die
Post by: JohnnyReb on December 02, 2012, 05:07:11 PM
DUmmies know that won't happen to them....they voted for Obama.