ATLANTA, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The family of a boy a Georgia hospital rejected for a heart transplant says the hospital has reconsidered and put the boy in its list of prospective recipients.
The family of Anthony Stokes, 15, said doctors had refused to put him on the list because of his history of "non-compliance" in taking medications as prescribed, ABC News reported Tuesday.
Stokes is receiving treatment at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston for an enlarged heart.
Doctors have projected he has six months to live.
"I know he will comply with all the rules," his mother, Melencia Hamilton, said before learning the hospital had changed its position. "He will take his medicine because he knows that is how he has to live."
Hospital spokeswoman Patty Gregory declined to comment on Hamilton's claims, but said there had been some "misinformation."
"We follow very specific criteria in determining eligibility for a transplant of any kind," she said in a statement.
