Cancer patient, 4, must get blood: judge

A four-year-old cancer patient’s parents will be forced to allow her to receive a blood transfusion despite their religious objections.

Supreme Court Justice Richard White ordered on Friday that the girl receive life-saving treatment for her leukaemia, News Limited reports.

The SA girl’s parents are strict Jehovah’s Witnesses and had objected to the blood transfusion.

News Ltd reports that paediatric oncologist Petra Ritchie warned the girl would die within weeks without it.

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