Jahi McMath‘s family is fighting to keep her on life support……
Jahi is the 13-year-old girl who was declared brain-dead after a simple routine surgery to get her tonsils removed. Needless to say her family was heartbroken over the incidence. Its only been 2 weeks since she’s been connected to a ventilator and due to insurance, doctors at the hospital want to disconnect her off of life support.
The family is UPSET and fighting to keep her on a ventilator but luckily for the family a judge has ruled that she be kept on life support at least until 5 p.m. Monday.
Children’s Hospital in Oakland agreed to transfer Jahi on Friday, and family members have said they’d like to move her to a medical facility in Southern California. However, they did not name the facility.
A facility in the Bay Area that had agreed to keep the girl on a ventilator indefinitely no longer has room, the family’s attorney, Christopher Dolan, told KGO-TV in San Francisco.
Dolan blamed the situation on a delay caused by Children’s Hospital’s refusal to perform a tracheotomy and insert a feeding tube.
After initially refusing to transfer Jahi, Children’s Hospital said on Friday that it was willing to work with the family.
“Children’s Hospital will of course continue to do everything legally and ethically permissible to support the family of Jahi McMath,” the hospital said in a letter to Dolan.
“In that regard, Children’s will allow a lawful transfer of Jahi’s body in its current state to another location if the family can arrange such a transfer and Children’s can legally do so.”
The McMath family is trying to raise $20,000 to help transfer Jahi to another hospital. So far the fund has raised almost $5,000 from 174 donors. To donate, visit the fundraising page visit www.gofundme.com/jahi-mcmath, or contact the family at Jahi McMath, P.O. Box 5128, Oakland, CA 94605-0128.
Our heart and prayers go out to the McMath family.
~God Bless~
