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Disabled Boy With Troubled History Taken Off Waiting List for Liver Transplant in US
Nick Cox, an official of the Department of Children & Families said the Shands Hospital in Gainesville removed the boy, 15, from the waiting list after administrators determined they could not find a stable environment for him to live in after operation.
Shands administrators told DCF chiefs they had serious concerns that the boy might not be in a safe, permanent home for the two years necessary to ensure his body does not reject the new liver, Cox said. The hospital, he said, ``had a big concern about post-placement permanency.''
The teen, who is not being named by The Miami Herald to protect his privacy, is in the advanced stages of liver disease, and doctors say he will need a new liver.
The boy has had a difficult life, even for a foster child.
Removed from his mother at infancy because she could not kick a crack cocaine habit, the teen had been living with relatives under DCF supervision until about a year ago, when his relatives were unable to continue caring for him. Since then, he has been in foster care in the Tampa Bay area.
He has been diagnosed with a developmental disability and often has difficulty controlling his behavior. DCF tried to arrange for him to live in a medical foster home in Gainesville so he could be near the hospital during the lengthy recovery process, but child-welfare workers were unable to find a specially trained home that would accept him.
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