Boy in Spain with brain tumor being readied to fly
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By HAROLD HECKLE
MADRID (AP) — A British boy who has a severe brain tumor is being readied to travel from southern Spain for treatment in the Czech Republic's capital aboard a specially-prepared private jet, officials said late Sunday.
The transfer of 5-year-old Ashya King could begin "in the next few hours," according to Manuel Paz, medical director of Malaga's Children's and Maternity Hospital, and Daniel Perez, the province of Malaga's health representative.
Paz and Perez met with King's parents, and they agreed the move could take place. Paz said the boy was in a stable condition and able to fly to Prague for "alternative treatment."
The boy's parents, Brett and Naghmeh King, were initially arrested by Spanish police after they removed Ashya without medical consent from a hospital in the English city of Southampton and drove him to Malaga. They were later released after charges against them were dropped by British police.
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CORRECTS NAME TO ASHYA -Dr. Vladimir Vondracek operates a machine in a proton therapy treatment room at Proton Therapy Center in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. The parents of the five-year-old Ashya King, who has brain tumor, plan to sell a property to pay for proton beam radiation therapy in the Czech Republic or the U.S. The British parents Brett and Naghemeh King , who took their critically ill son for treatment abroad are heading to see him at a hospital in southern Spain following their release from custody after U.K. authorities dropped accusations of child cruelty against them. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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