Anorexic girls are being put in comas in NHS hospitals as part of ‘last resort’ attempts to force feed them

The NHS is putting young women with anorexia into comas in a ‘last resort’ attempt to force feed them. 

Patients are being sedated and given oxygen in intensive care units for weeks at a time in some instances, as the number of cases of extreme malnutrition rises among those with the eating disorder. 

At least six people are understood to have been put under general anaesthesia in the ICU to feed them until they reach a healthier weight, as reported by the Sunday Telegraph. Some hospitals have sought court orders to back their approach. 

One young woman, 20, has as of yesterday spent 19 days in a coma in intensive care, being tube fed, without an ‘exit plan’, according to court documents.

Two 17-year-old anorexia patients have also been sedated for tube feeding – one as recently as last November. It is understood at least three more patients have received the same treatment recently, including one in Scotland. 

Doctors at ACUTE, a globally renowned eating disorder clinic in the US,…