The directors of the Gaslini Children’s Hospital in Genoa last week called a press conference about progress in the condition of one of their patients. Tafida Raqeeb, the British child at the centre of a right-to-life struggle which in October her parents sensationally won, had been removed from intensive care just three months after the High Court in London was told that she had no hope of recovery.
The five-year-old had been so gravely harmed from huge bleeding on the brain last February, the argument went, that only death could be in her best interests – even if she emerged from a coma.
