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Alfie Evans dad to talk with Alder Hey Hospital doctors about taking him home

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Alfie remains at Alder Hey Hospital as his parents continue to fight for the right to take him to Rome (Picture: Respond for Life)

The father of Alfie Evans has told reporters outside Alder Hey hospital that there will be a meeting with doctors later today to discuss taking his son home.

He said: We got rejected yesterday to go to Italy unfortunately. We could take it further but would that be the right thing to do, would there be more criticism?

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So what we do today is we have a meeting with the doctors at Alder Hey and we now start asking to go home.

He added: Alfie doesnt need intensive care any more. Alfie is lying on the bed with one litre of oxygen going into his lungs and the rest is him. Some people say its a miracle, its not a miracle, its a misdiagnosis.

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Alfies father Tom Evans said: Hes been off a ventilator for three days now, theres been no deterioration.

He hasnt woke up, hes still a little bit weak but what we ask for is to go home to sustain his life.

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He said Alfie was still fighting and was comfortable and content with a stable heart rate.

He said Alder Hey doctors were wrong and added: Alfie lives, comfortably, happily, without ventilation, without any form of ventilation.

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That must be enough for you now to consider that Alfie may prove you wrong.

In posts on Facebook, a family member said Alfie, who is at Alder Hey Childrens Hospital in Liverpool, was doing good, more than two days after he was taken off a ventilator.

Tom Evans and Kate James failed in an 11th-hour attempt to persuade judges to let them move the 23-month-old to a foreign hospital.

The couple, who are both in their early twenties and from Liverpool, maintain that life-support treatment should continue to be provided.

The parents have now lost two rounds of fights in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights.

BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE. Family handout photo dated 23/04/18 supplied by the Alfies Army Official facebook page of brain-damaged boy Alfie Evans cuddling his mother Kate James at Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday April 25, 2018. See PA story COURTS Alfie. Photo credit should read: Alfies Army Official/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
Alfie Evans cuddling his mother Kate James at Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool, after being taken off life support (Picture: PA)

Mr Evans said the family did have appeals to explore.

He said: All I ask for now is for this meeting to be a positive one and I hope to have Alfie, on the terms of mine and Alder Hey, to be home within a day or two.

If the meeting doesnt go well today, well then Ill go back to court.

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He added: As I sit next to Alfies bedside, every second of every day, it encourages me more and more that he will live for x amount of months, possibly years.

He said he hoped to be able to make arrangements with the hospital to get a care plan in place today.

He told reporters Alfie was not suffering and not in pain.

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Alfies dad said that he gave his son mouth-to-mouth after his lips went blue

Alfies case has touched hearts around the world, with Pope Francis among those who voiced support for the youngster.

However Alder Hey said its staff had experienced unprecedented personal abuse from some quarters after it found itself at the centre of a social media storm.

Hospital workers had been subject to a barrage of highly abusive and threatening language and behaviour in person, via phone and online, while there were reports of unauthorised members of the public attempting to enter the hospital.

Having to carry on our usual day-to-day work in a hospital that has required a significant police presence just to keep our patients, staff and visitors safe is completely unacceptable, the hospitals chairman, Sir David Henshaw, and chief executive Louise Shepherd said in an open letter.

Merseyside Police issued a warning that it was monitoring posts online and that any malicious communications or threatening behaviour will be investigated and could lead to action.

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Alfie Evans. Taken from Alfie's Army Official Facebook group (Picture: Alfie's Army/Facebook)
Alfie Evans has made it through another night after his life support machine was turned off (Picture: Alfies Army/Facebook)
Undated family handout file photo taken with with permission from the Alfies Army Official facebook page of brain-damaged boy Alfie Evans. Police are at a protest outside the hospital where terminally-ill Liverpool boy Alfie Evans is being cared for. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday April 12, 2018. It comes a day after a High Court judge expressed his sympathy for the parents of the 23-month-old who is approaching death after being at the centre of a life-support treatment battle. Merseyside Police said they were in attendance at a protest outside Alder Hey Children's Hospital and appealed to protesters to be respectful. See PA story POLICE Alfie. Photo credit should read: Alfies Army Official/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
His parents have lost another battle in the courts meaning they cant take him to Italy (Picture: PA)

Doctors stopped providing life-support treatment late on Monday after Alfies parents had lost two rounds of fights in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights.

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But the couple, who want Alfie to be flown to a Rome hospital, mounted a one last chance challenge on Wednesday.

The couple said their son had defied doctors expectations and his continued survival amounted to a significant change of circumstances which merited a review.

However three Court of Appeal judges dismissed a challenge to a High Court decision made on Tuesday that he should not be taken abroad.

Lawyers representing Alder Hey bosses said Alfies condition was irreversible and there was no evidence that it had changed.

A recent handout picture released by Action4Alfie operating the facebook group alfiesarmy and the Save Alfie Evans website on April 5, 2018 shows seriously ill British toddler Alfie Evans at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. Pope Francis has stepped in to the case of a seriously ill British toddler who is being kept alive on a ventilator. Alfie Evans, who is 22 months old, has a rare degenerative neurological condition which has not been definitively diagnosed. / AFP PHOTO / Action4Alfie / Action4Alfie / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT
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Alfie Evans. Taken from Alfie's Army Official Facebook group (Picture: Alfie's Army/Facebook)
His parents say that life support should be maintained for the youngster (Picture: Alfies Army/Facebook)

They said the fact that he had continued to breathe unaided might have surprised members of the public but had not surprised specialists.

Barrister Michael Mylonas QC, who led Alder Heys legal team, said it had never been suggested that Alfie would die as soon as life-support treatment stopped.

Barrister Sophia Roper, who represents Alfie and takes instructions from a court-appointed guardian, agreed.

Lord Justice McFarlane, who headed the appeal court panel of judges, said Alfies parents were trying to take one last chance.

But he said there was no prospect of the couples challenge succeeding and Alfie was in the middle of a palliative care plan.

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