Jahi’s family celebrated the small victory in their fight to keep her alive.
“It’s been really up and down and up and down and now we have a blueprint on how to accomplish our objective,” Omari Sealey, Jahi’s uncle, said.
On Friday morning, a Superior Court Judge denied the family’s fourth request to have a breathing and feeding tube inserted into the brain dead 13-year-old, but attorneys agreed upon how Jahi will be allowed to leave Children’s Hospital.
According to Christopher Dolan, the family attorney for Jahi McMath, the process to move Jahi will involve several steps. He said there must be communication between Children’s Hospital and the receiving facility, the family must give the receiving facility paperwork of Jahi’s health care status and she must be transported in an ambulance that can switch her to a portable ventilator.
Dolan also said Alameda County Coroner’s Office will be involved.
“The hospital will give Jahi to the coroner,” Dolan said. “The coroner will then, if we fill out certain paperwork, give Jahi to us. Then we are free to transport Jahi.”