THE TAWDRY TREATMENT meted out to the King family beggars
belief. Two state institutions have combined to cause the separation of a five-year-old
child from his parents, in a country where the child cannot understand the language
he is surrounded by…and the authorities accuse the parents of neglect?
The
NHS and Hampshire police have misrepresented the King family. Little Ashya's parents were told by Southampton hospital that
their sons' case was terminal; and the parents were then supposed to accept the
doctors prognosis, and wait patiently for Ashya's end to come.
Then
the King family searched the internet and learnt of a treatment called Proton Beam Therapy, which, as I
understand it, targets the tumour far more accurately (according to the media
it is known as 'the sniper') than conventional methods which would also kill
the healthy brain cells surrounding the tumour, which, if successful would
leave the patient with brain damage.
As far as the doctors at Southampton NHS were concerned Ashya's
cause was hopeless; so in effect it should have mattered little if his parents
removed him from the hospital where he would have just died in any event. It is
like the E-bola virus – it is effectively a sentence of death. So why bother
with any new treatment like any untested new vaccines being given to those with
the virus?
The logic seems to be that if part of the medical
profession deems a case hopeless, a line should be drawn under it. We do not do
this with E-bola, and neither should we do it with Proton Beam Therapy, that
the King family learnt of on line, and looked into its possibilities – straws may
have been clutched, but it was for the King's themselves to clutch them and
seek out this one final hope for their son, and not for the state to try and
stop them. They are prepared to pay for the treatment; and will not be
dependent on the taxpayer - so why treat them as kidnappers?
To the Kings this treatment offered hope, and as they
could not get it from the NHS, they undertook to find it elsewhere, which they
did. But it would come at a cost; according to some quotes I have read – £86,000.
The Kings had a property in Spain which they went there
to sell, or had already sold but went there to provided the necessary signature
to conclude the sale. The sale was intended to pay for Ashya's proton beam
treatment.
The family were not ignorant of their son's needs as the Southampton
hospital seem to have thought. They bought on-line the same food that was intravenously
given to Ashya in Southampton, as well as the batteries needed for the
appliance needed to feed their son.
The family had done their homework before they rescued
their son (it was more of a rescue than a kidnapping), and if they had been
allowed at their own expense to give their son the treatment that Southampton
NHS insisted was not applicable even if available, in Ashya's case; then this
whole miserable and cruel episode could have resolved itself without the Kings having
to remove their child (not the states)
from the hospital.
IN THIS COUNTRY some
250,000 abortions are committed each year by the same medical profession that
went to such great and cruel lengths to bring little Ashya home to die. While the
police in Rotherham turned their back on 1400 children who were raped for fear
of being called racist and upsetting the multicultural equilibrium; and, if
today's press is correct helped produced 100 unwanted babies.
Yet look at how the King family are being treated by these
two state institutions? They are being criminalised in order to try and save
their son's life, and to defy a bureaucratic closure that helps the hospital
and the NHS move forward. They represent what this country once believed in -
the family. The King's care more for human life, it seems, is greater than many
in the NHS, who just follow procedures. It was not always like this in the NHS,
but sadly it would dishearten its political founder, Aneurin Bevan if he could pay
a 21st century visit to his creation.
THE KING FAMILY acted
to protect one of its members. To them family means everything[1];
to them the medical professionals were not gods when it came to their family's
youngest member. Why should they just give up on the say-so of the medical
professional? If they have the financial means to try to save their young son's
life by paying for another form of treatment: what on earth is it to do with
the state?
If the King's believe that a very expensive magical
potion only obtained from a plant in the Brazilian rain forests could save
their son, and they were prepared to pay for it, what business would it be of Western
medicine to intervene if they had already pronounced the patient's disease terminal.
People have the right to spend their money as they see
fit in such extreme circumstance as the King family found themselves in
regarding their son – especially as they had already been told that their son
has an inoperable and terminal cancer.
This whole business stinks to high heaven – I wish desperately
that young Ashya King gets his Proton Beam Therapy; and I dearly hope, not only
for his own sake, but also for the sake of his parents love; that the therapy
(if they manage to arrange it) results in success.
The King family did the right thing- the best for their
child.
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