Coma wife inquiry call.A husband is demanding an inquiry after the High Court ordered his wife, who was in a persistent vegetative state persistent vegetative state: see under coma, in medicine. , be treated with an unproven drug against his wishes. The woman had been in a coma for three years when her family asked for feeding to be withdrawn so she could be allowed to die, it was reported. But the Official Solicitor Official Solicitor is a term which relates to two different and relatively old offices of British government. It was an office that represented the Crown, which is an institution that stands in place of a written constitution. successfully applied to the court for her to be treated with Zolpiden, an insomnia drug that has been linked to patients in her condition recovering some of their awareness. The treatment failed and now the dead woman's husband is calling for an inquiry. |
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