Supreme Court rules on hospital procedure in case of patient with multi-organ failure

Refusing to provide further care to a patient with no hope of recovery, which would only prolong their suffering, cannot be regarded as an act of discrimination, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, rejecting an appeal by the parents of a young girl who succumbed to fatal complications caused by a congenital disease in a Prague hospital. The parents sought an apology and financial compensation over doctors' refusal to transfer their daughter from intensive care to the hospital’s anesthesiology and resuscitation department. Doctors argued that her condition, which included multi-organ failure, was irreversible and would only prolong her suffering.