Court to rule on blood for baby

THE High Court will today consider whether to order an emergency blood transfusion to a baby girl born prematurely a week ago in the Coombe Hospital, Dublin.

The child, weighing less than 2lb, was born to Jehovah’s Witnesses parents who have refused to agree to a blood transfusion should it become necessary in an emergency.

Barrister Eileen Barrington, counsel for the Coombe chief executive, told Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy the child was not in imminent danger.