A pox on all people who think that government run medicine is a good thng. From the London Daily Mail:
'Our beautiful boy has gone': Little Charlie Gard's parents announce that their brave warrior whose plight touched the world has finally died after battling devastating genetic illness he fought for so long
Eleven-month-old Charlie Gard, whose short life captured the hearts of the world, has died a week before his first birthday.
Charlie suffered from a rare genetic condition which saw him in hospital for the majority of his short life.
His parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, fought a lengthy and emotional legal battle to take their severely ill baby son to the US for treatment, but were denied by judges.
Charlie's mother, Connie, said tonight: 'Our beautiful little boy has gone, we are so proud of you.'
Yesterday courts denied his parents the chance to bring their son home to die and he was taken from Great Ormond Street to a hospice.
First they denied him the chance of experimental treatment in the US even though it would have cost the National Health Service nothing - the Gard family had raised £1.35 million online for this. To do so would have been to admit that the National Health Service failed where a privately run medical business could have succeeded.
What really has me seeing red is the denial of the right for him to die at home and his transportation from his hospital to a hospice.
Words fail.
