Girl, 17, with severe learning disabilities to get life-saving kidney dialysis

Doctors have agreed to provide life-saving kidney dialysis to a teenage girl with severe learning disabilities on a trial basis - despite having reservations about her ability to cope, a judge in a specialist court has been told.

Sana Hosseini's parents said they 'hugged and all of us cried' after the news was confirmed. Hospital bosses wanted a court decision on whether dialysis was in the best interests of Sana, 17, who has 'chronic' kidney disease.

But lawyers told Mrs Justice Theis, sitting in the Court of Protection, that specialists had agreed to try dialysis.

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Sana's mother, Maryam Nogourani, and father, Majid Hosseini, who live in the Manchester area, want her to have dialysis. The judge was told that Ms Nogourani was 'very enthusiastic' about treatment starting.

Mrs Justice Theis is overseeing Sana's case at hearings in the court, where judges consider issues relating to people who lack the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves. The judge, who is based in London and also oversees hearings in the Family Division of the High Court, has approved the plan.

She heard, at the latest hearing, that Sana would die if she did not have dialysis – or a transplant. The judge said dialysis would involve Sana having to sit still for lengthy periods several times a week. She said the teenager might inadvertently tamper with equipment and put herself at risk. But the judge said the benefits of dialysis “heavily” outweighed the 'inherent risks'.

Bosses at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust,