I simply cannot imagine the hospital letting your son die, if nothing more than the civil suit you could potentially file against them.
Thanks kuresu. But in this case, no standard hospital would have a hope in hell's chance of performing the operation. Within 4 hours of birth, our son was whisked on emergency evac to Guy's, a world centre for this sort of thing. How would this be dealt with, as it would require the cooperation of several entities (maternity hospital, specialist hospital, emergency evac)?