We are overrun with illegal immigrants, the government claim to not have a clue how many there are. We have illegals working in government departments and as security guards all over the country. And yet this government have thought it perfectly acceptable to remove a Ghanaian woman who was being treated here for cancer. Ama Sumani, 39, has died in Ghana because the drugs required to treat her condition were not available in her home country.
Miss Sumani came to the UK on a student Visa but broke its condition when she started work. Campaigners were trying to persuade the government to allow her to return to the UK to continue her treatment. Unfortunately for Miss Sumani and her two orphaned daughters, they failed.
The medical journal The Lancet called the government’s behaviour "atrocious barbarism". I totally agree.
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What do you expect?
She had no business being here and should not have received any treatment at all. It is sad that she has died of an unpleasant disease but we cannot allow people to remain who shouldn't be here because they are seriously ill while our own are dying of cancer, and other unpleasant conditions, for want of drugs that are freely available in the little nations of the 'U'K, and might be available in England were the people of England not giving quite so much away overseas.
It is precisely because we are perceived as 'compassionate' that people overstay their visas and become illegal immigrants. Either we are serious about taking a tough line on illegal immigration, even in difficult cases, or we are not.
The two 'orphaned daughters' had been abandoned in Ghana whilst she went through the charade of being a 'student'. Sympathy from me, no I don't think so. Sympathy for the many old English people who cannot get proper treatment because the NHS is milked by the world.... plenty.
Gents,
I'm one of the first to complain about illegal immigrants abusing our health system, but there is still a level of compassion that should be expected from a so called civilised country. This woman was removed from her hospital bed and put on a plane in the full knowledge that she was likely to die. They also knew that she would leave behind two orphaned children. Because she is just some faceless foreigner you may find it easy to say "so what let her die". How easy would it be for you to sign her death warrant, because that is what the arsehole who sent her back to Ghana did.
If she had come here knowing she had cancer then I would have less sympathy for her. However from what I've read, she developed the cancer in this country.
From the Times:
Ama Sumani, 39, was removed from the hospital by five immigration officials who drove her to Heathrow and put her on a flight to her native Ghana. Mrs Sumani, a mother of two, died because the treatment she needed was not available in her home country.
Her name was Ama Sumani, she was 39 and she had two children.
I don't want to get into a row about this but a number of observations are pertinent.
Firstly: That she developed the cancer here is irrelevant; she should not have been here.
Secondly: The people of England are not responsible for the ills of the world. The NHS was set up to provide healthcare and long-term medical treatment to those who are entitled to it, not to anyone who can contrive to enter the country 'by fair means or foul'. I would expect a 'civilised' country to provide basic emergency treatment to anyone, regardless of status, but long-term care is not emergency treatment and those who need it must obtain it in the country in which they are entitled to it, not here, at our expense. That notwithstanding, there is nothing at all civilised in denying essential treatment to those here legally who are entitled it, and condemning them to an earlier or avoidable death, as we are doing, because the burden of caring for those whom we are not actually responsible for is crippling us.
Thirdly: Just as it is no concern of an English judge that a criminal may face persecution in his homeland should he be deported from our country (a point you have often made) so it is no concern of an immigration official, or any medical adviser, that an illegal immigrant may suffer declining health if returned to his country of origin. Once a patient who is not entitled to be in Br*tain is fit to travel, and provided that the journey does not cause unnecessary, and genuine, suffering, as opposed to inconvenience or difficulty, he must be repatriated.
I agree with much of what you write but I cannot agree with you on this, and while I understand your desire to criticise the activities of a Labour government that I too wish to be rid of as quickly as possible I do not think either of us will convince the other of the merits of our respective cases in this instance.
I'll leave the issue there.
Mr Gruff,
You are right, there's no point arguing over this. It's purely a matter of opinion. There's a line of compassion in this case, we may be close together on our level of compassion, but just fall on either side of that line.
Daily Ref surprises me, does your concerns mean that anyone in the world with cancer is entitled to come here and obtain treatment by the NHS?
Anon,
Don't be a tit and read what I've actually said.
DO ANY OF YOU KNOW THE AMOUNT OF FEES INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS PAY TO STUDY IN THIS COUNTRY? THEY CONTRIBUTE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO THE UK ECONOMY. FOREIGN STUDENTS ARE ENTITLED TO NHS TREATMENT BECAUSE THEY PAY FOR IT THROUGH THE EXORBITANT FEES THEY ARE CHARGED BY UK INSTITUTIONS (BETWEEN 10000 AND 30000 POUNDS ANNUALLY. THIS IS SEPARATE FROM LIVING AND OTHER EXPENSES. THE UK BENEFITS A LOT FROM A LOT OF AFRICAN ECONOMIES AND THE GHANAIAN ECONOMY IS A HOTBED FOR THE UK. ASK THE UK HIGH COMMISSION ALONE IN GHANA HOW MUCH PROFIT IT MAKES ANNUALLY FROM VISA FEES AND OTHER EXTORTIONIST CHARGES AND YOU'LL BE SURPRISED. DO ANY OF YOU KNOW ABOUT THE HISTORICAL LINK BETWEEN GHANA AND THE UK? WHERE DOES BRITAIN GET ITS GOLD RESERVES FROM? ANSWER: LOOTED FROM GHANA FORMERLY CALLED THE GOLD COAST. THE ECONOMY OF YOUR COUNTRY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN WHAT IT IS WITHOUT AFRICA'S RESOURCES. THAT IS WHY THE UK AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES AND NOW CHINA CAN NEVER LEAVE AFRICA ALONE. SO GIVE US A BREAK AND STOP THIS XENOPHOBIC ATTITUDE. ASK YOUR AID WORKERS WHY THEY LOVE IT SO MUCH IN AFRICA. THEY WILL TELL YOU QUALITY OF LIVING THERE IS BETTER THAN HERE IN THE UK (BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR OWN COOKS, GARDEN BOYS, DRIVE FOUR-WHEEL DRIVES ETC. THAT THEY CAN NEVER AFFORD HERE IN THE UK). MOST OF THE COST FOR THESE PRIVILEGES IS PAID FOR BY THE SO-CALLED AID THE UK OR THE WEST CLAIMS IT GIVES GHANA OR OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES. MOST OF THESE AID WORKERS AND EXPATRIATES DO NOT EVEN PAY TAX LIKE THE IMMIGRANTS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES PAY HERE IN THE UK.
I DON'T BLAME YOU XENOPHOBIC BLOGGERS. I BLAME THE LEADERS OF AFRICA WHO ARE NOT ONLY CORRUPT AND SELFISH BUT ARE SO CONDESCENDINGLY TOO SUBSERVIENT TO THE UK AND OTHER WESTERN GOVERNMENTS EVEN IF IT IS AT THE EXPENSE OF AFRICANS. WE NEED LEADERS WHO CAN FIGHT FOR THE INTERESTS OF THE AFRICAN MASSES AND NOT THOSE OF WESTERN GOVERNMENTS AND THE TINY GROUP OF AFRICAN ELITE.
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