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Hospital: Charlie Gard Must Die Here, Can’t Go Home

Hank Berrien

First, Great Britain’s health care system forbid Charlie Gard’s parents from taking him to the U.S. for treatment. Then, on Tuesday, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) argued in court that Gard’s parents should not be allowed to take him home so he could die at home.

GOSH argued that Charlie should go to a hospice or stay at the hospital because his ventilator won’t fit through the front door and doctors feared he could suffer pain or a “distressing or disordered death,” according to The Daily Mail.

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