Ontarario suffers from a progressive neurological disease . Joseph Maraachli , the infant whose family refused to accept a recommendation by a Canadian hospital to remove the boy 's breathing tube and allow him to die , is now breathing on his own without the aid of a mechanical ventilator . A hospital in St. Louis , Joseph Maraachli refused to insert a tracheotomy tube . In March his parents took him to London , helped by an anti-euthenasia group . He received a tracheotomy at Maraachlis .
Ontarario suffers from a progressive neurological disease . A hospital in St. Louis , Joseph Maraachli refused to insert a tracheotomy tube . In March his parents took him to London , helped by an anti-euthenasia group . He received a tracheotomy at Maraachlis .