MADRID (AP) – A British boy who has a severe brain tumor is being readied to travel from Spain for treatment in the Czech Republic aboard a specially-prepared private jet.
Southern Malaga’s Children’s and Maternity Hospital said late Sunday that its medical directors had met with 5-year-old Ashya King’s parents and had agreed the transfer could begin “in the next few hours.”
The hospital said Ashya is in a stable condition and able to fly to Prague for “alternative treatment.”
The boy’s parents, Brett and Naghmeh King, were initially arrested by Spanish police after they removed Ashya without medical consent from a hospital in the English city of Southampton and drove him to Malaga. They were later released after charges against them were dropped by British police.