Jahi McMath Update: Life Support Case, One Year Later

December 15, 2014

(CBS News) – A year ago, 13-year-old Jahi McMath underwent a tonsillectomy and tissue removal at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California, to treat sleep apnea. The girl suffered massive bleeding, had a heart attack and was declared brain-dead Dec. 12, 2013. Her family battled to keep her on a ventilator and to have breathing and feeding tubes surgically inserted despite the hospital’s objections.