(CNN) -- The family of
Terri Schiavo has joined the battle over Jahi McMath, a 13-year-old girl on a ventilator who has been declared dead by doctors.
"Together with our team of experts, Terri's Network believes Jahi's case is representative of a very deep problem within the U.S. healthcare system -- particularly those issues surrounding the deaths of patients within the confines of hospital corporations, which have a vested financial interest in discontinuing life," the
Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network said in a prepared statement.
The hospital denied the
accusation.
"We have done everything to
assist the family of Jahi McMath in their quest to take the deceased body of
their daughter to another medical facility," hospital spokesman Sam Singer
said.
"To date, they have been
unwilling or unable to provide a physician to perform the procedures necessary,
transportation, or a facility that would accept a dead person on a ventilator.
Our hearts and thoughts go out to them in this tragic situation, but the
statements being made by their attorney and some family members are misleading
and untrue."
Family attorney Christopher Dolan
had accused the hospital of being "hell bent" on ending Jahi's life.
A judge has declared Jahi brain
dead as well. Doctors say there's no chance she will come back to life.