Life support resumes for man in controversial case after court reverses earlier decision

Image: Shutterstock/sfam_photo Image: Shutterstock/sfam_photo DOCTORS HAVE RESUMED the life support for a Frenchman who has been in a vegetative state for over a decade, following a court order to restore it hours after the switching off process began.

Lambert’s mother, Viviane hailed the ruling as “a very big victory” in her struggle to maintain vital medical care for her son. Medical sources told AFP that Lambert could die within days or a week without the life support treatment he had been getting in the Sebastopol Hospital in the northeastern French city of Reims.

French President Emmanuel Macron rejected calls by Lambert’s parents and others to intervene, saying “the decision to stop treatment was taken after a constant dialogue between his doctors and his wife, who is his legal representative”.“Everyone can have their own opinion and convictions… but above all, can we now have our privacy,” she told RTL radio.

Early this year, a French court sided with Sanchez’s decision to stop the care keeping Lambert alive. The ruling was upheld last month by France’s State Council which decides on the validity of laws and legal decisions.

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