EdgeHillMole wrote:Given that she has bone marrow cancer and is on dialysis treatment, she probably wasn't earning very much (If anything at all). Maybe she was taking free hand-outs for food and lodging.
I think the taxpayers were paying all the costs of her treatment (Via the NHS). Which is no doubt part of the reason why she was chucked out of the UK - She was placing a large burden on the taxpayer/NHS without having paid enough taxes to compensate. I remember reading somewhere that unfortunately she was ineligible for the same treatment in Ghana unless she paid full price for it.
We can only hope when it comes our turn to get sick or start dying, we've paid enough into the UK tax pot!
I'm totally in two minds over this issue, I don't want to see anyone die in any circumstances but at the same time I don't want the UK NHS to become a catchall for all the impoverished and inadequate health care systems throughout the world.
Who's not to say that the treatment this woman has already received in the UK has delayed the treatment of someone else further down the line and will maybe resulted in their death?
There are consequences for every action and there's no way to legislate for every outcome.
But ultimately the buck stops with the Ghanian Health Service doesn't it?
An chéad stad eile Stáisiún Uí Chonghaile....
