Ghana's High Commissioner in London has appealed to Britain to reverse its decision to fly a terminally ill woman back to the African country.
Ama Sumani was taken from a Cardiff hospital on Wednesday where she has been receiving dialysis after cancer damaged her kidneys.
SourceHas the country gone completely, utterly stark raving bonkers?
I can see what is going to happen here – they will fly this poor woman back to the UK, re-home her, give her free treatment for the rest of her days and then (according to her last washes no doubt), fly her remains ‘home’ to Ghana.
Call me a heartless bastard if you will but the woman was in the UK illegally and surely has no rights to any NHS treatment? If Ghana's High Commissioner in London thinks this is a special case then let him put his hand in his pocket and pick up the $2,000 a month that it will cost to treat her.
The UK government not only flew her back to Ghana at taxpayer’s expense but then offered to pay the first three month’s treatment in Ghana ($6,000) out of UK taxpayer’s contributions.
The Commons home affairs committee says it intends questioning the head of the Border and Immigration Service, Lin Homer, about Mrs Sumani's deportation.
Committee chairman Keith Vaz described the deportation decision as "astonishing".
"We hope to hear a full explanation from Lin Homer about this extraordinary decision. Of course there have to be rules governing the right to remain in this country," Mr Vaz said.
Mr. Vaz, the astonishing thing is that the woman was allowed to stay in the UK after her visa expired,
that’s the astonishing thing. She was in the UK illegally, presumably claiming benefits and yet was able to get free treatment on the NHS!
I can’t get free NHS treatment as an expat yet I paid tax and national insurance in the UK for twenty-five years, my father fought for the country for cod’s sake, my mother serviced army trucks during the war! Yet arrive illegally in the UK and they throw everything at you.
Utter,
utter bastards!
Rant over… I feel better now.
