{"id":819,"date":"2004-08-08T14:05:22","date_gmt":"2004-08-08T19:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=819"},"modified":"2009-03-29T14:08:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T19:08:29","slug":"disgusting-immoral-and-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2004\/08\/08\/disgusting-immoral-and-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgusting, immoral and sick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nOfficials are preparing a fresh set of guidelines for GPs, which would stipulate that people whose asylum cases have been rejected, or who have not yet submitted an application to the Home Office, must not be given ‘routine’ care, including drugs therapy. Refugees are allowed emergency treatment only if they fall ill with Aids symptoms and are sent to casualty departments.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Observer has learnt that there have been several cases in the past three months of clinicians
\nhaving to persuade hospital managers to allow them to treat pregnant women asylum seekers who have HIV.\n<\/p>\n

\nUnder the April guidelines, hospitals can refuse to give women the treatment if the Home Office has refused them leave to remain in Britain. But a decision not to give them the drugs would leave their unborn children with a 30 per cent chance of developing the disease.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nFury at ban on HIV help for refugees, The observer, 08 August 2004
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\nThis is just sickening. The sheer depravity of witholding medical treatments from people, of sending
\nthem to their death just because of their legal status. There is no way anyone could excuse this
\nmonstrous policy. Sure, the usual suspects will try and rationalise it by presenting it as a cost saving
\nmeasure, preventing those evil refugees from “sponging off the NHS”, or as a measure to make the UK less popular as a destination for refugees, but in reality it will just cause more human suffering without
\nachieving anything.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat I’m worried about is, since my own government seems honourbound to copy the worst aspects of UK and US policies, they will try and introduce this here as well…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Officials are preparing a fresh set of guidelines for GPs, which would stipulate that people whose asylum cases have been rejected, or who have not yet submitted an application to the Home Office, must not be given ‘routine’ care, including drugs therapy. Refugees are allowed emergency treatment only if they fall ill with Aids symptoms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[492],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-politics","tag-asylum-seekers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}