Cancer Patient Who Was Deported To Ghana Has Died...?

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Top item on the news tonight on Radio 5 was about a cancer patient who was deported to Ghana because he was an illegal immigrant has died. It's funny, but I can't find any mention of it on the main BBC website so I don't know why it's the top story on 5 live, but should we all feel guilty that this person died after being deported?
 
Very sad for the person who died but not everyone can be saved from cancer no matter where they are living. Be it third world or not.
 
No M'Lud,we should not,our fate is decided probably before we are born,the lady in question suffered an aggresive Cancer and its debatable that she would have survived wherever she spent the last months of her life.Life is harsh.
 
No, we are not the worlds hospital, he came here illegaly and as such should have been deported, you dont mention how he died tho
 
The real shame should come from the Governments insane asylum and immigration policies. They target the easy ones for removal and ignore the rest. As awful as it sounds setting a precedence for caring for sick people from the third world would open the flood gates and we'd soon enough be a third world bankrupt nation ourselves.
 
That is pretty awful but reflects on the Government's immigration policy and not on us.
It's completely perverse that the Government does not deport criminals on the grounds of theiir Human Rights, whilst condemning someone to death from cancer because, one assumes, that such a person does not have the basic human right to the largesse which we throw around so incontinently.
 
i saw this news item on the telly a few weeks ago, but was sure it was a woman being deported. The journalist went round the main hospitals of Ghana with her but the treatment she needed wasn't available at any of them. I never caught the follow-up to this so am really sorry to hear this might be the same person (or even another person in the same situation) who has died. It's awful that our hospital could have offered treatment and never bothered......

EDIT: more info here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7305963.stm
 
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