Treatment Refused

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Well this is unusual me posting a topical serious thread but this was just on our news down here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-21747912

Basically, little girl from Bangladeshi family needs an operation but her dads work permit ran out in 2009 so the hospital refused to treat the girl.

What's GOT's opinion on this?

My view is while it's not the little girls fault, it is the fathers fault for not doing what he needed to do to ensure his family were eligible for treatment when needed.

Am I being too harsh? Like I say, I don't usually post threads like this, but the story caught my attention.
 

Our NHS gets used quite a bit by health tourists and the like and it's a strain we can't really afford. That said I don't want little girls dying because of that.

Genuinely difficult one that.
 
Might seem heartless, but the NHS is funded by the working native folk, why should we pay for illegal immigrants to get surgery when myself and many others I know struggle to get surgery having been born here and supported the system.
 

Unfortunately you have to be heartless in these situations, as awful as it is. It's the parents who are responsible for their kid's in any situation. My mum works at the hospital and as part of her job, she has to check that patients are actually legally living in the country - if not she has to report them and they can't be treated. Of course, it's not a nice thing to do, but the effect it would have by allowing these patients to have treatment would be huge, and not just in terms of our economy.
 
Poor girl :(
Not an easy one, but I'd say no, go home to have it done, or we'll permit visiting if they pay privately. We can't afford to set a precedent when the NHS is struggling with our own citizens and there are so many non-citizen workers here.
Unless he's been paying full tax and NI, then maybe (I suppose if he hasn't he's asking help from citizens he's been taking the p out of)
 

Treat the girl. Get the family to either arrange new VISA's whilst that treatment is going on, and if not, just deport them afterwards.

It's a little girl ffs
 
blueser said:
Treat her it's a little girl ffs. Then deport them.
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Think about the treatment cost though, if they helped this little girl, they'd have to help every kid in this situations, and there's a lot more than you'd probably think.

It's kinda like, if a person tried buying something but was a few quid short and the shop owner let them off, can you imagine how much money they'd lose if they let someone do that every single day?
 
HSD said:
Think about the treatment cost though, if they helped this little girl, they'd have to help every kid in this situations, and there's a lot more than you'd probably think.

It's kinda like, if a person tried buying something but was a few quid short and the shop owner let them off, can you imagine how much money they'd lose if they let someone do that every single day?
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Is right. We have to look after our own, at the end of the day.
 

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