A year-old girl who was declared brain dead after suffering complications from a tonsillectomy at Children's Hospital Oakland last month has arrived at a new care facility, her uncle and a family attorney said Monday morning.
The family of Jahi McMath is optimistic about her new treatment options after her release from the hospital Sunday evening. She was first released into the custody of the Alameda County coroner's bureau and then into the custody of her mother.
A death certificate was issued for her on Dec. Once in their custody, the family went through with arrangements to have Jahi transported to another health care facility Sunday night, Dolan said. A "transfer team" -- that did not include any personnel from Children's Hospital -- oversaw her move from the hospital to an ambulance and eventually to the new facility, Children's Hospital spokesman Sam Singer said. The facility is somewhere in the U. Dolan said that at the new facility, Jahi is being treated as a "human being" instead of a body, which is how the family viewed Children's Hospital's treatment of Jahi.
She is being given antibiotics for infections she has from bedsores and other nutrients, Dolan said. Singer said that Jahi is deceased and the hospital does not treat dead bodies. There were complications after the procedure that resulted in heavy bleeding, and she was declared brain dead on Dec.
Weather Traffic U. Station Info. Newsmakers Our America Localish. Follow Us:. Share Tweet Email. Share: Share Tweet Email. She said her Christian beliefs compelled her to fight for continued care for her daughter, who she said showed signs of life through toe wriggles and finger movements. In refusing to throw out the lawsuit last year, a judge ruled that it was up to a jury to determine if the girl was still alive. ET : An earlier version of the headline with this article misidentified the state where Jahi McMath died.
It was New Jersey, not California. CNN has not independently verified Dolan's accounts about what's happened to the California teen or the status of her health. She died at home surrounded by her mother, Nailah Winkfield, stepfather Marvin Winkfield and sister, according to the statement.
Winkfield said she is "devastated by the loss of her daughter who had showed tremendous strength and courage.
Some medical ethicists have said the case has fed into a misperception that "brain death" is not death; that somehow, the body can live on, and that is life. Winkfield said she is thankful for the last four years she had with her daughter and although her daughter could not talk to her, "my daughter knew I was there and that I loved her, I knew she was there and that she loved me too. She said she left her job, sold her house and most of her belongings and cashed in her savings to be with her daughter in New Jersey since Dolan said he will continue his pro-bono fight for Jahi, "through the federal civil rights case which was filed in the Northern District of California to have her hastily prepared death certificate reversed, and her date of death established as June 22,
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