The parents allegedly had a list of 20 or more people who met the relevant criteria for the parents besides being a proper match for the child.
For whatever reasons, this was not considered to be acceptable by the relevant health services.
For whatever reasons, this was not considered to be acceptable by the relevant health services.
If we start going that path where do you draw the line ? Will one day people ask for male blood only, heterosexual blood only, republican blood only, &c. ?
From the article, it sounds like the parent's blocked testing unrelated to bloodwork and transfusions as well. Many hospitals are willing to work with strange last minute requests (to some degree), but if they were being otherwise difficult then that reduces any patience the staff has to go out of their way to accommodate anything outside of the standard procedure.