The one-year-old girl whose parents fought a High Court to keep her on life support has died.
Her
devastated parents posted a notice on Facebook stating: "With the
greatest sadness and broken hearts we have to tell you that our baby
girl became an angel this evening.
"Thank you so much for your support. Lots of love from Olivia and us."
Last
night they agreed to the withdrawal of life support for their daughter
after a long battle to save her life ended up in the High Court.
Olivia Stanca, described by her parents as a "little fighter", was born with a tumour on her adrenal gland which spread to her liver.
Olivia, whose first birthday was on Monday, beat the disease
after two rounds of chemotherapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital but has
suffered several blood infections and recurrent episodes of severe
multiple organ failure.
The hospital trust was due to ask
London's High Court for permission to discontinue a range of treatments,
including renal replacement therapy, as doctors did not consider it in
the child's best interests to continue treatment.
Parents Maria
and George Stanca, from Walthamstow, east London, refused to give up
hope and were planning to oppose the application and ask for everything
possible to be done to keep their child alive.
But
yesterday Mr Justice Moylan, sitting in the Court of Protection, was
told Mr and Mrs Stanca had this afternoon accepted Olivia's life was
ending and agreed to life support being withdrawn following a rapid
deterioration in her condition.
Fiona Paterson, appearing for the trust, told the judge that sadly the parents "now accept an end-of-life plan is necessary".
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