Baby Joseph is expected to get a long-awaited tracheotomy Monday morning in an American hospital.
The surgery, in which a surgeon makes an incision in the infant's throat to insert a breathing tube, was to have begun around 9 a.m., Brother Paul O'Donnell said.
O'Donnell was among the first to learn when an arrangement was underway to move 13-month-old Joseph Maraachli from London Health Sciences Centre to Cardinal Glennon Hospital in St. Louis, Mo.