Baby Kaylee Vitelli, a child at the heart of a national organ transplant last month, is expected to be discharged from a Toronto hospital later this week, according to a family spokesperson.
The infant, who is three months old, will be discharged from the care of Hospital for Sick Children on Thursday, May 14. She will be returning to her Bradford, Ont. home, says a news release by JP Public Relations Inc., a firm representing the family pro bono.
The family is expected to address the media on Thursday.
Kaylee has a rare brain condition known as Joubert Syndrome. It causes a condition known as sleep apnea where she stops breathing when she sleeps.
Her story made national headlines -- and triggered a debate about the ethics of organ donations -- three weeks ago when her parents made public their desire that Kaylee's heart be transplanted into another ill baby at the Hospital for Sick Children.
Doctors believed Kaylee would die without life support and agreed to transplant her heart into the other baby when she died.
But Kaylee continued to breathe on her own after she was taken off life support,. Doctors deemed her to no longer be a transplant candidate, but the infant remained at the hospital.
Since then, Wallace has made headlines by complaining about the care given to Kaylee.
On May 1, the child's parents Jason Wallace and Crystal Vitelli, held a news conference, telling reporters they wanted Kaylee removed from the hospital.
On April 29, Wallace was forcibly removed from the hospital following a meeting with hospital management. He then went to police headquarters to file an official complaint.
The hospital issued a statement the next day saying it has a "responsibility to provide a safe work environment" for their staff and that they removed Wallace to "control the situation."
