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Persistent vegetative state: A family's agony
Reporter Sanchia Berg speaks to the family of a woman who spent almost four years in PVS.
The family of a woman who spent nearly four years in a permanent vegetative state (PVS), after a drug overdose which severely damaged her brain, have said the process for withdrawing treatment for these patients should be sped up and simplified.
Sanchia Berg speaks to the family.
Derick Wade, professor in neurological rehabilitation at the Oxford Centre for Enablement, and Nageena Khalique QC, head of Court of Protection Law at No.5 Chambers, discuss the issue.
(Image: hospital. Credit: Getty Images.)
