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Unacceptable Death of a person seeking asylum

Adil | 08.02.2008 07:18 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

Mohammed Ahmadi, a ethnic Kurd died yesterday in Gloucester Hospital

Yesterday evening, Thursday 7th Feb 2008, a young Kurdish asylum seeker, Mohammed Ahmadi, died at Gloucester Royal Hospital of heart failure.

Mohammed has been suffering from heart problems for a long time and was diagnosed as having a heart infection and valve malfunction on the 11th Jan 2008 after having been admitted to the cardiology unit.

The doctor kept him as an emergency case due to the severity of his condition. He was discharged a few days after because, according to Gloucester Royal Hospital the Home Office would not pay for his treatment for the reason that his status is still pending.

As a consequence of this, Mohammed's health seriously deteriorated. On Thursday 31st Jan 2008 he was re-admitted as an emergency but even then the needed treatment was not started until yesterday Wednesday 06 Feb 2008.

The treatment he was given should have been for the duration of 6 weeks and should have started on the 11th Jan, as the doctor who examined him on this date had wanted to.

The distressing news of Mohammed's death is an example of the terrible negligence of the authorities in this country, which leaves the lives of so many asylum seekers unprotected.

I have known Mohammed for nearly one year and I was with him today at the hospital a few hours before he sadly passed away.

Adil

Adil
- e-mail: esereth_43@yahoo.co.uk

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Very Sorry

08.02.2008 08:54

Adil, may I ask that condolences be passed on to Mohammed Ahmadi's family and friends.
There will be a day when we will rid ourselves of heartless and illegal rules (under international law) realting to asylum seekers and other vulnerable people and that day can not come too soon.

Live & Let Live!

home office

08.02.2008 18:55

hes not paid taxes to cover his treatment so he cant have it im sure millions would agree

dexter

Tax Schmax

08.02.2008 21:15

To each according to his or her needs.

The reason that there's not enough of everything to go round is not because some poor sod hasn't paid tax. It's because everywhere you look, wealth is being creamed off by those at the top of the pile to keep the illusion of scarcity.

hospital worker

Right to life

08.02.2008 21:48

Who would agree that somebody should be left to die because he has no money or did not pay taxes? There is something like a duty of care. Dexter you are a murderer. Shame on you!

love&live

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Let's be realistic

09.02.2008 05:40

The NHS is funded by British taxpayers. It's obvious that a system funded only by British taxpayers can't practically treat everyone in the world who comes here. If they tried it wouldn't be long before the NHS collapsed. So what do you experts suggest we do?

Humpty Dumpty

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health care

09.02.2008 16:16

if i went to another country and fell ill would i get free health care

no

so why should some one coming to this country get free health care when we cant even provide it to our own citizens

dexter

ACCESS DENIED: Sat 23 Feb King's College London

14.02.2008 14:18

Eric Allison and Steven Morris's article about the death of Mohammed
Ahmedi in
Gloucester of an asylum seeker appeared in yesterday's Society Guardian
(text
below).

This seems to have been a case of doctors and/or managers responding to
the
shifting wind of policy before it even becomes law.

So how bad are things likely to get, when this *does* become law? On
Saturday
week (23rd February) the Kings College London branch of the Medsin
network will
hold a conference to discuss this:
 http://www.medsin.org/london/accessdenied

>ACCESS DENIED
>Refugee and Asylum Seeker Access to Health Care in the UK
>Saturday 23rd of February, 2008, 9-5pm
>Harris Lecture Theatre, Guy's Campus
>King's College London

The government's aim, apparently is "To ensure
that living illegally becomes ever more
uncomfortable and constrained until they leave or
are removed" (Home Office, Enforcing the Rules
2007.)

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The article:

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/13/nhs.immigrationandpublicservices

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