A London hospital cut the life support system for the mother of three Hong Kong men without her family's permission, British media reported.
Pang Ka-chun, 37, and Pang Ka-hing, 35, flew out of Hong Kong after hearing their mother had been hit by a car on December 22, but she had died before they arrived in London on Christmas Eve, the Daily Mail reported yesterday on its website.
Doctors at Kings College Hospital switched off 58-year-old Pang Cheung Lai-mei's ventilator on the morning of December 23, news website Your Local Guardian reported. She was unconscious with severe head injuries. They did so believing she would never recover despite appeals from her husband, Pang Shun-yuen, to keep her alive for two more days, the website said.
Pang, a 60-year-old museum security officer and former British serviceman, said the two-day extension may have enabled his sons to say farewell to their mother. 'We were all crying ... they wanted to see her one last time but when they did she was cold and being pulled out from the mortuary,' Your Local Guardian quoted him saying.
Pang Ka-yip, 36, a third son, also arrived in London on Christmas Eve from Hong Kong, Your Local Guardian reported. The mother was hit by a car after she left a hairdresser's in South Lambeth. She and her husband had moved to Britain from Hong Kong as British citizens in 1995.
Doctors at the hospital allegedly told the husband they would have to turn off the life support machine due to tight resources, the Daily Mail reported.
