UK: Illegal Alien Using ‘Human Rights’ to Get Free Health Care For Chronic Illness

Express
February 7, 2014

'Appalling case' says Priti Patel
Tory MP Priti Patel said it was ‘an appalling case of health tourism’.

A seriously ill teenager from Pakistan being treated free of charge on the NHS has launched a legal appeal to stay in Britain.

The 17-year-old and his mother argue that forcing them to return home to poorer medical care amounts to “inhuman treatment” and breaches his human rights.

If he wins the battle, not only will UK taxpayers have to foot his huge hospital bill, but the NHS may be forced to open its doors to sickly youngsters from around the world.

Last night Tory MP Priti Patel called it “an appalling case of health tourism”, adding that Government reforms in the Immigration Bill would stop “such abuses of our public services”.

Fellow Tory MP Douglas Carswell said: “It would be inhuman not to have enormous sympathy with this young man and his condition. But if we can’t get this sorted our National Health Service will become an International Health Service, and that is unsustainable.”

Yesterday two immigration judges at the Upper Tier Tribunal were told the teenager, identified only as MQ, has a potentially fatal blood disorder which stunts his growth.

The youth, who has the build of a boy of 10 because of his condition, arrived on a tourist visa in 2012 and almost immediately sought medical care.

MQ’s mother, who has a husband and another son in Pakistan, denied bringing him to the UK for treatment – even though her asylum application appeared to show otherwise. She claimed to have been visiting her sister when she took her son to a specialist and then the Whittington Hospital in north London.

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