Another case:
"Injunction ensures blood transfusion in Jehovah's Witnesses
The judge of the 10th Civil District Vara de Belo Horizonte, José Nicolau Massella, authorized a hospital to perform a blood transfusion in an elderly patient, hospitalized in serious condition, which was opposed to the procedure. Followers of the religion of Jehovah Witness, patient and family claim that can not receive blood from others.
Introducing a framework for hematemesis (vomiting blood), diabetes and hypertension, the realization of the transfusion is necessary "given the context of imminent risk of death," according to the medical report presented.
The application for injunction presented based on the Constitution of the Republic, that even ensuring the freedom of religion, states that life is the greater good of every man, and the Penal Code, Art135, which characterized as a crime "no longer provide assistance when can be done without personal risk (...) the person in grave and imminent danger. " Finally, support is also, according to the hospital, "above in the hope that freedom of religion is the right to life."
On the subject, has also expressed the Federal Council of Medicine, who face frequent problems involving supporters of the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses and medical procedures issued a resolution finding that "if there is imminent danger to life, the medical practice of the transfusion blood, regardless of consent of the patient or their parents. "
To the judge who granted the injunction, "to anyone is given the right to life, so that the right to religious freedom can not override the right to life, our right, is to preserve all of it."
The decision was published in Minas Gerais on September 5, and be the first instance, it can be appealed." http://www.expressodanoticia.com.br/ind ... d_mat=4389