PRAGUE: A Czech centre due to provide five-year-old Ashya King with the medical treatment his family has desperately sought since it was refused under British care said he could check into hospital in Prague as early as next week.
The Proton Therapy Centre (PTC) said that its experts would fast-track their procedures for the young brain cancer sufferer, whose parents were arrested last week in Spain after pulling him from an English hospital in order to seek alternative care.
Brett King, 51, and Neghemeh King, 45, triggered an international manhunt when they took Ashya, the youngest of seven children, out of hospital. The child had recently undergone surgery for his brain tumour, and the parents had rejected subsequent treatment they believed would turn him into a “vegetable”.
Once in Spain, they were arrested under an extradition warrant for fear that Ashya’s health was in danger, but British prosecutors later dropped the case amidst an outpouring of public sympathy.
A lawyer for the family, speaking on Saturday in front of the children’s hospital in the southern Spanish city of Malaga where Ashya has been remained for a week, said the boy would head to Prague by today at the latest.
AFP
