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Protection Order Keeps Disfigured Baby In Hospital March 6th 2002 The battle between British doctors and the parents of a Saudi-Arabia-born 12-week-old girl with severe facial deformities garners wide coverage in today's papers. The focus in the Guardian is news that the baby has been placed under an interim police protection order by magistrates to ensure she remains in hospital. Her parents had threatened to remove her from a Newcastle hospital "claiming she was being used as a medical experiment". A higher court, probably sitting in Leeds, will rule on the baby's future today. The baby has Goldenhar syndrome, a rare condition in which part of her face is missing: she has no right eye or ear, only half her nose and lacks part of her right jaw. Doctors at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary say she needs an urgent tracheotomy to help her breathing. Guardian: High court to act over baby's surgery Telegraph: Legal tussle over disfigured baby
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