Letter: Children still loved after transfusions

Tuesday 28 July 1992 23:02 BST

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Sir: Having read 'Battles without blood' (28 July), I wish to set the record straight on one oft-quoted misapprehension.

Neither I nor any of my colleagues know of any occasion when a Jehovah's Witness has rejected a child after an unwanted blood transfusion. Such children are cared for with the same love and devotion as Christian parents lavish on any child who has been assaulted; which is indeed how Jehovah's Witnesses view this, happily rare, situation.

Yours faithfully,

J. W. A. BRACE

Deputy Hospital Information Co-ordinator

Watch Tower

London, NW7

28 July

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