A Bologna minors court on Thursday stripped of their parenting rights a couple near Modena who had refused vaccinated blood donors for the heart surgery of their young son.
The local social services in the town near Modena where the family lives were appointed legal guardians of the child.
For religious reasons, the parents had demanded that the blood used in the surgery should only come from unvaccinated donors.
The boy is at Bologna's Sant'Orsola Hospital.
On Tuesday the hospital won an appeal against the parents' unvaccinated blood demand.
A Modena child guardian judge ruled that there were guarantees of absolute safety in using blood from vaccinated donors, turning down the parents' appeal.
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