US EditionCouncil of State Authorizes Interruption of Care to a Patient Despite the Opinion of the Family
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For several months, the Gustave-Roussy Cancer Institute has been fighting against Chabane Teboul's 64-year-old family in a coma after throat cancer.
The Gustave-Roussy Institute has been fighting for several months against Chabane Teboul's family, which opposes the choice of doctors to interrupt the patient's mechanical ventilation.
The highest administrative court authorized on Monday 3 November the Gustave-Roussy Institute to interrupt the treatments of Chabane Teboul, immersed in a coma. But the family of the 64-year-old patient, who has been opposed to the medical decision for two months, is not ready to give up.
On Monday, November 3, the Council of State authorized the Gustave-Roussy Institute, located in Val-de-Marne, to discontinue the treatment of a patient immersed in a coma, while his family opposed this decision and had previously won the cause of justice. "The serious neurological lesions of which Chabane Teboul is affected are irreversible", stresses the Council of State.
The Council of State on Monday authorized the Gustave-Roussy Institute to discontinue the treatment of a patient immersed in a coma, while his family objected to this decision and had previously obtained the success of the treatment.
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