Five-year old Ashya King will be flown on a private plane to the Czech Republic to receive the proton therapy treatment his parents were seeking for him. The boy is currently at the Materno Infantil hospital in Malaga, Spain with his parents. The family is expected to fly on Monday morning.

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News of the boy first made headlines when his parents, Naghemeh and Brett King, removed him from Southampton Hospital in the UK on August 28.  

Hospital staff were concerned that the battery on the machines that King relied on to live would run out. They then called for an international manhunt to locate him and his parents.

The family was found in Spain. The child's parents were arrested on a European warrant obtained by the Hampshire Constabulary on the grounds of child neglect.

The arrest sparked outrage from the global community and the Crown Prosecution Service has since withdrawn the warrant of arrest.

King's parents have explained that the reason for them taking their son away from the UK hospital was to seek proton therapy treatment for his brain tumor.  

The treatment is only available in the UK for eye melanoma and can be extremely expensive. However, it is available in Prague and other parts of Europe for other types of cancers and tumors.

Their son had already undergone surgery to have his brain tumor removed and was left unable to speak, eat, or drink by himself. They believed proton treatment would be the best course of action for treat their son since it is less invasive than surgery and more precise than conventional chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

The Kings are expected to be able to fly to The Proton Therapy Centre in Prague in the early hours of Monday morning.  

Doctors are set to meet at 8 a.m that same day to review the documentation of Ashya's medical history from Materno Infantil before he will be cleared to receive proton therapy treatment.

In the event that the doctors do not agree with the parents on the proper course of treatment for Ashya, the courts will step in to make the final decision. 

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