Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Outrage as Tory Southend West MP, Anna Firth poses for picture with Archie Battersbee and his family with Jubilee memorabilia at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel on Tuesday.
A Twitter user wrote, read: “This is the state of British Conservatism: Tory Southend West MP Anna Firth poses with Archie Battersbee & his family with Jubilee memorabilia. This is vulgar, debased, dehumanising & every adult involved in this should be ashamed.”
Alistair Chesser, chief medical officer at Barts Health NHS Trust – which oversaw Archie’s care – said in a statement: “Members of his family were present at [Archie’s] bedside and our thoughts and heartfelt condolences remain with them at this difficult time.
“The trust would like to thank the medical, nursing, and support staff in the paediatric intensive care department who looked after Archie following his awful accident.
“They provided high-quality care with extraordinary compassion over several months in often trying and distressing circumstances. This tragic case not only affected the family and his carers but touched the hearts of many across the country.”
But doctors treating the boy had declared Archie to be “brain stem dead”, and argued that the youngster should be disconnected from a ventilator.
This prompted a lengthy but unsuccessful fight in the courts to continue his life support treatment in the hope he would recover.
Archie’s family had later made bids to the High Court, Court of Appeal and European Court of Human Rights to have him transferred to a hospice to die, but all legal routes were exhausted.
Barts Health NHS Trust has released a statement following the death of Archie Battersbee.
The trust conveyed its “heartfelt condolences” to Archie’s family and thanked hospital staff for their “extraordinary compassion”.
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