Alexander City missionary clings to life at UAB

Alexander City’s Myron West, a member of Sixth Street Baptist Church, clung to life in UAB Hospital Monday almost four months after contracting malaria in Uganda, where he was on a mission trip for Birmingham’s Four Corners Ministries.

According to Matt Haines, pastor at Sixth Street Baptist Church where West is a member, West was surrounded by family, receiving oxygen through a tracheotomy tube and on an IV. Haines said West vital signs were strong, but he is receiving only palliative care. His ventilator and other life support have been removed as dictated in his living will.

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