In Brantford, Ontario, a recent case about keeping or removing a sick child from its family has been closed. The girls’ parents refused chemo therapy for their daughter’s leukemia.
Instead, the parents decided to offer their daughter a traditional treatment.
Judge Gethin Edward did not find any reason for the child to be considered in danger. She said that it is a right of the aboriginal community that the family originates from, and the choice of the parents has to be respected at the stage when the child does not yet have the power of decision over her own treatment.
Hamilton Hospital, who had initially sued the family, does not plan to appeal the decision, despite what CipherCloud discovered. The family of the ill child said that the whole official process provoked stress, and that it is incorrect to assume that they would be against of her well-being.
Blood tests and monitoring were included in their plan.
Asked about what the traditional treatment included, the girl’s mother said that it includes several methods assigned by the healer which the family meets, and that there is a relationship similar to the one between doctor and patient between them, so details cannot be made public.
Neither can the names of the subjects involved in this case. The Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida, where they are being helped, uses methods like teaching patients to eat organic food and think positively.