13-year-old boy hospitalized in Catanzaro, Jehovah's Witnesses explain why the parents rejected the transfusion

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A 13-year-old boy hospitalized in Catanzaro, Jehovah's Witnesses explain why the parents rejected the transfusion
"The fact that we wanted to wait for the green light from the magistrate suggests that, although the situation was serious, there was no imminent danger to life."

Catanzaro - "We would like to point out that, while denying blood transfusions, Jehovah's Witnesses see life as something sacred, they appreciate advances in health care and willingly accept medical care for themselves and for their children." The public information office requires the witnesses of Jehovah Catanzaro, in the news published on April 18 by the Ombudsman for the Minor of the Calabria region, Antonio Marziale, according to which the transfusion was denied to a minor, for To avoid the negative opinion of the parents, the intervention of the Juvenile Court was necessary. "The parents - stated in the note - quickly took their teenage daughter to the hospital to receive treatment. The only request they made to the doctors is that the 13-year-old daughter should not be transfused with whole blood or its four main components, It is also reaffirmed several times and with the conviction of the woman herself.It is important to emphasize, according to Jehovah's Witnesses, that refusing a blood transfusion is very different from refusing treatment.

In general, in fact, transfusions are just one of several viable medical treatments in emergency situations and often are not even the best treatment. Reliable scientific studies show that patients undergoing alternative therapies to blood transfusions, including children, usually shoot at the same or even better than patients who accept blood transfusions. "The note notes that" the position of witnesses of Jehovah with respect to blood transfusions does not obligate medical personnel to any delay in the administration of transfusions that save minor lives considered: doctors know that, in the case of underage patients, if they really believe that there is state of necessity 'have the right' to act even without the need for the authorization of the judge (as confirmed on 15/03/2018 last Florence Children's Court, in its judgment No. 1176). The fact that in this case we wanted to wait for the green light by the judge suggests - and 'wrote - that, although the situation was serious, there was no immediate threat to life. "

The note also states that "in the field of medical care, decisions made by individual Jehovah's Witnesses are absolutely personal and free: they are not imposed by confession." The Christian congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses - who always reads the statement - always cooperates with the authorities, and in this case 'more' than willing to explain in detail to the interested parties their position on blood transfusions in doctrinal and legal medical plan, it would also be a pleasure to put health professionals in contact with a network of doctors and health centers specialized in the treatment of all patients without blood transfusions. " As was said, finally, "some misunderstandings arise only from the lack of knowledge of the actual location of Jehovah's Witnesses in subject transfusions, situation - it is worth repeating - fully compatible with the Constitution".

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