Unacceptable Death of a person seeking asylum
Adil | 08.02.2008 07:18 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements
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
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:
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Very Sorry
08.02.2008 08:54
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
dexter
Tax Schmax
08.02.2008 21:15
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
love&live
ACCESS DENIED: Sat 23 Feb King's College London
14.02.2008 14:18
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:
>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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