Namibia: Court Rules to Allow Blood Transfusion

26 September 2012

THE legal stalemate over the medical treatment of a Windhoek resident who has been refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds is continuing, after a High Court ruling which yesterday authorised her medical doctor to provide the necessary treatment, including a blood transplant, to her.

Polytechnic of Namibia lecturer Efigenia Semente was not in a fit mental state when she indicated her refusal of a potentially life-saving blood transfusion following the birth of her third child in a Windhoek hospital on September 8, Acting Judge Collins Parker found in the judgement which he delivered yesterday.

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