End of Life, no nutrition required
Tar Lazio against Sacconi
Directive on mandatory nutrition for those who live in a vegetative state will decide the ordinary civil court. This is established in the TAR of Lazio in a ruling that upholds the claim of the Movement for the Defence of the citizen. The device of Tar contradicts the directive of the Welfare Minister Maurizio Sacconi, which requires regional and local health authorities not to permit the withdrawal of artificial nutrition to patients in a vegetative state.
However, the judges wrote in the ruling that "you still need to protect the obligatory 'health care." It was the MDC, after the death of Eluana to prevent the recurrence of similar cases, to decide to continue his fight before the Tar confirming the view that the directive in question is unlawful and invalid, and considering that "the constitutional principles of do not allow freedom of treatment irrespective of wills' in relation to the patient's care be administered to them. "
the TAR of Lazio, in considering the appeal, acknowledged its lack of jurisdiction and has not decided, therefore, the merits of the case. Gianluigi Pellegrino's lawyer - who oversaw the use of the Movement for Defence of the Citizen - said: "With riferimento alle persone che non sono in grado di esprimere la propria volontà, come i pazienti in stato vegetativo permanente, gli stessi non devono essere discriminati".
Lo scorso febbraio, dopo una vicenda giudiziaria durata oltre dieci anni, il padre di Eluana Englaro - da 17 anni in stato vegetativo - è stato autorizzato dai giudici ad interrompere i trattamenti di idratazione e alimentazione che tenevano in vita la figlia dopo l'accertamento dell'irreversibilità della condizione della donna e del suo convincimento sull'interruzione del trattamento
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