Should This Woman Have Even Been Allowed Into Our Country?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4176406/Meet-Nigerian-cost-500-000-IVF-triplets.html

[Gromit]

I am sure we discussed this case a few weeks ago.

Have we lost the ability to search this site, I cannot seem to find a search button/field?

[Baldric]

Search Box above Latest Posts

[naomi24]

Gromit, top right, above 'Latest Posts'.

[Gromit]

Thanks, search is actually on twice, also by the side od Related Questions.

Naomi, I remember some recent posts about a pregnant woman costing the NHS £500K and I worked out and didn't believe her stay was costing £8,000 a day. You pisted that £8K was about right. I cannot find that thread, but is it the same case?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

Perhaps you are getting mixed up with this one.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4123156/Health-tourist-s-350-000-bill-paid-NHS-crisis-case-mother-flew-Nigeria-birth-two-twins.html

Not surprising though, because it seems to happen on a regular basis.

[naomi24]

Gromit, I don't think I said it is 'about right'. More likely I said I'm not surprised the cost was so high.

[anotheoldgit]

Perhaps we should syphon any monies owed from the £253.5m Nigeria receives from us in foreign aid?

[Gromit]

Apologies for hijacking your thread.

While I agree that this is frustrating, if a passenger on a plane goes into labour 3 months early, there isn't really an option to not let them into the country. The alternative would be to let all 5 die.

[Sqad]

My sympathy for the UK is at best "luke warm." as over the years on AB when discussing alternative methods of health care (particularly that of the U.S) one has been reminded time and time again that the UK is an understanding,philanthropic society who would attend to the health of the needy from whatever part of the world.
Well, that is what is happening and appreciated by all, so please stop moaning about "tourism healthcare."

Unless of course you are now realising that it is expensive to be a caring society, but you want to retain the title whilst cutting back on the expense?

Just make up your minds.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Apologies for hijacking your thread. ///

Apology accepted Gromit, but there is nothing really to apologise for, you were not high jacking my thread in the true sense of the word.

/// While I agree that this is frustrating, if a passenger on a plane goes into labour 3 months early, there isn't really an option to not let them into the country. The alternative would be to let all 5 die. ///

America refused her permission to enter their country, why did she then not just turn around and fly back to Nigeria?

Well we all know the answer for that don't we?

[anotheoldgit]

sqad

/// one has been reminded time and time again that the UK is an understanding,philanthropic society who would attend to the health of the needy from whatever part of the world. ///

/// Well, that is what is happening and appreciated by all, so please stop moaning about "tourism healthcare. ///

Please don't speak for all of us, as it in no way appreciated by us all.

Especially those who are being treated in hospital corridors or keep having their operations set back time and time again.

[Sqad]

AOG...you make a good point which i accept fully.
However, the impression that one gets based on ABers and the media in general over the years, that the UK "as a whole" abhors the treatment of the sick which indicates, to me, that such reticent attitude to "invading invalids" would not be tolerated by the UK populace.
However....your point is noted.

[anotheoldgit]

Sqad

Well thank you for that, such a polite reply, which is generally a rare thing on here.

[Gromit]

AOG,

She was not in labour when she was refused entry into the US. The plane she was on was flying to Nigeria, but it was going via Heathrow.

[Sqad]

It was interesting that her original destination was the U.S and not the UK, so one must assume that she was willing to pay for her healthcare.......not however as she expected.

[Gromit]

AOG,
Just to clarify, this woman in labour could not stay on the plane. You do not think she should have been admitted into the country. So are you saying she should have been detained in a cell at Heathrow and had her babies there? or something else?

[anotheoldgit]

gromit

Read through the whole article we are being ripped off, and 'OUR' NHS is suffering as a consequence.

I think this reader's view should be awarded BA.

/// Not long before the same protesters who marched over Brexit and Trump will be signing petitions and protesting that our NHS should be free of charge for anyone and everybody. ///

[vortex]

Sqad //It was interesting that her original destination was the U.S and not the UK, so one must assume that she was willing to pay for her healthcare.......//

That may well have been the case but although she had a visa she did not have the required documentation to confirm that she had the funds to pay an invoice.

Regarding the circumstances of where she was, she went into labour 3 months early and so finding herself in the UK was a fluke.

[dave50]

These health tourists should realise they wont be treated unless they can pay and as a consequence are likely to suffer. We need to start being hard.

[anotheoldgit]

/// She had intended to give birth to the babies in Chicago, in the US, where she has family – but was turned away by border officials upon arrival. ///

Then perhaps her family should cough up, after all that is what they would have been forced to do if the US had let her in?

/// ‘It’s only money. Money can’t buy life. The last bill I had was £331,000 but – even if I worked every day – – I would never earn that much money. ///

Yes but the simple fact is, that it is not your money but ours.

/// Priscilla underwent IVF treatment, which has a high risk of multiple births, as she was struggling to conceive naturally due to her age. ///

/// I would never earn that much money. My kids are priceless.’ ///

Easy to say when you are not footing the bill, if you can't afford them then don't have them especially by IVF, surely there are enough kids waiting for a home in Africa?

/// Her husband is in Nigeria, and cannot come to Britain to help take care of her as he does not have enough money for a visa or the flight. ///

Ah, such a shame, never mind mate your missus will soon be home, that is unless she claims citizenship in the good old UK, then that will be a double whammy, you will be able to join them, then you can all live off us 'rent free'.

/// She was told by her doctor to fly to the US to have her babies, as Nigerian hospitals do not have the ‘facilities to cater for the
children’. ///

Sound advice indeed especially if one can get away with it.