A family in Great Britain is taking legal action after police dragged a grieving father from the hospital bedside of his critically ill six-year-old daughter, who later died.
Police were acting on behalf of doctors, who had ordered the girl be taken off a ventilator and for treatments to be stopped.
The father suffered a heart attack during the encounter, but survived.
The girl, named Zainab, was born with a rare condition, Niemann-Pick Disease, that leads to loss of function of nerves, the brain and other organs. She also had contracted swine flu.
Both parents are doctors and objected to the doctors’ decision to pull her tube.
A shocking and now-viral video shows several police pulling the father, Rashid Abbasi, out of the hospital room. The video is from police body camera footage. The encounter took place in August 2019 and the girl died the next month. It became public this month due to the lawsuit.
Abbasi and his wife, Aliya, say the doctors did not give their daughter the correct treatments.
“They never listened to us,” the father told Sky News. “They would never provide explanations for their actions.”
Because of his medical background, he was able to ask “leading questions” that frustrated the doctors, he said.
After the hospital chose to remove the ventilator, Abbasi refused to leave his daughter’s bedside and also refused requests from medical…
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