T's Medical Condition
. 13.T has hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy; a brain dysfunction or injury which occurs as a result of a lack of oxygen or blood to the brain, in this case at birth. He has cerebral palsy which in T's case has resulted in developmental delay, physical difficulties and involuntary muscle movement. He also has epilepsy, similar to Lennox-Gastaut syndrome epilepsy, which demonstrates itself in seizures, which can be severe.14.As a result of these complications, he furthers suffers gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, which is acid from the stomach leaking into the gullet and as a result of this, he has had an operation called a fundoplication to his upper stomach. He is fed via a tube to his stomach. He further suffers severe global developmental delay, possible sclerosis in the spine, talipes club foot, drooling and recurrent ear infections. He is a profoundly disabled young child. That evidence is best supplied in a statement prepared for the court by a Consultant in General Paediatrics at Birmingham Children's Hospital, dated 26 April 2022.15.One other piece of evidence which is not in written form before the court but is referred to in the social work evidence, and not challenged by any party is the view of the treating paediatricians that T has a 60% chance of surviving to the age of twenty and therefore, clearly has a potential mortality before reaching twenty years old of 40%.