Hospital ordered to give Jehovah’s Witness transfusion
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The High Court tonight intervened to save the life of a seriously ill African woman by ordering a Dublin hospital to give her a life-saving blood transfusion.
The 23-year-old Congolese woman, who suffered a major haemorrhage today after giving birth to a healthy baby boy, had refused the treatment on religious grounds because she is a Jehovah’s Witness.
Believed to be the first case of its kind involving an adult in Ireland, the court ruled the Coombe Hospital must put the interests of the child first and save the mother’s life.
It is understood she had lost 80% of her blood.
A spokesman for the Coombe Hospital confirmed doctors had been ordered to act in the best interests of the mother.
I’m happy to see that this womans life was saved. This just shows how convinced the Jehovah’s Witnesses are that they are being lead by “Gods Organization”. Unfortunatly many more people will lose their life by the scrioture twisting the Watchtower has done to make their followers think that a blood transfusion is a sin. If only Christains could have the depths of faith they do.