Five-year-old Ashya King, who is currently undergoing treatment for a brain tumour, could be set to travel to the Czech Republic for Proton Beam Therapy any day now.
Ashya has spent eight days in hospital in Malaga since being found by the Spanish police in Velez Malaga, and during that time his parents have been held in custody in Madrid, before finally being reunited with Ashya and their other children after the British Crown Prosecution Service dropped their European arrest warrant.
Now the Kings are looking to travel to Prague as soon as possible, where Ashya will be able to receive the special treatment denied to him by the NHS.
The family have been granted permission by the British courts to move Ashya to the Czech Republic, but still have to find a privately-funded, medically-equipped plane to get him there.
Health authorities in Andalucia have stipulated that the plane will have to meet certain requirements, and be fitted out with the correct medical equipment, before they allow the boy to be moved from the children’s hospital in Malaga where he is currently residing.
The request was made during a two and a half hour meeting between Health delegate Daniel Perez; chief medical directors Manuel Paz and Jose Antonio Medina; and Ashya’s father and eldest brother, Brett and Danny King.
Perez has said that all the paperwork except that relating to the aeroplane is in order and that once the Kings have complied with their requests, the go ahead to move Ashya will be given.
The family’s lawyer, Juan Isidro Fernandez, has said that the transport will be ready by Monday at the latest.
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