The Colombian Pain Institute (Incodol) announced the cancellation after making room for a review with a scientific committee
“According to a meeting in which the request of Mrs. Martha Liria Sepúlveda was reviewed and analyzed again in a sufficient and ample manner, it concluded unanimously to cancel the procedure to die with dignity through euthanasia, scheduled for October 10, 2021 ″, said the entity in a statement given to the press this Saturday.
The decision was based, they explained, on numeral 26.6 of article 26 of Resolution 971 of 2021 of the Ministry of Health, which instructed the Committee to review the application process and the complete euthanasia procedure, in order to detect any situation that affects to assisted intervention.
In that sense, he remarked: “That is why, by having an updated concept of the patient’s health and evolution, it is defined that the termination criterion is not met, as had been considered in the first committee.”
The country decriminalized the practice in 1997 but only signed it into law in 2015, amid criticism from various religious movements.
Meanwhile, by July 2020, the country’s Constitutional Court extended the right to a dignified death to those who suffer “intense physical or mental suffering” due to an incurable injury or illness.
Sepúlveda’s case became the center of debate in Colombia since he is the first person to receive authorization for euthanasia in a patient who does not have a terminal illness.
On several occasions the woman referred to the issue when she said: “I am a Catholic person, I consider myself very, very believing. But God does not want to see me suffer ”.
In the last days, Federico, her only son, spoke to the press, who said: “My mother is calm and happy since they told her that she could die because her life is literally hell.”
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