Mother sobs as she pleads for her child’s life

A devoted mother tearfully told her severely brain-damaged daughter ‘Don’t give up, keep on fighting’ at the High Court as she battles to keep her alive. Tafida Raqeeb, five, is on a life-support machine after blood vessels ruptured in her head in February this year. She woke her parents in the early hours in February complaining of a headache and collapsed shortly afterwards. Her parents want her to be transferred from the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, to Gaslini in…

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