Jahi McMath Family Running Out Of Time

A 13-year-old girl declared brain dead could be disconnected from a breathing machine today despite her family's attempt to keep her on life support.

Under a court order, Children's Hospital of Oakland in California is allowed to remove Jahi McMath from a ventilator at 5pm local time (1am on Tuesday, UK time).

But her family believes the girl is alive and is hoping to be able to move her to another facility where she can be kept on a breathing machine.

The battle is dividing public opinion in the US.

Jahi suffered complications after undergoing a tonsillectomy at the hospital on December 9.

After she awoke from the operation, her family said, she started bleeding heavily and went into cardiac arrest.

Both the hospital and an independent paediatric neurologist from Stanford University have concluded the girl is brain dead.



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What an awful position to be placed in and I really feel for this young girl's family. It must be so hard to let go. There are miracles, I guess this family are praying for one  

The tragedy of this case is that it is against medical ethics to operate on the dead. Thus, the hospital takes the position that it cannot even prepare Jani with life support in order to move her to a more long-term facility.

And it was simple throat surgery. The doctors were responsible.