Deportation of Critical Patient Condemned

Jan 16, 01:07 PM

The head of immigration services in England criticized a decision by immigration officials to deport a terminally ill woman to her native Ghana.

Immigration officers deported Ama Sumani, 39, to Ghana because her visa expired. Sumani has malignant myeloma and was undergoing dialysis treatment at a hospital, the Times of London said Wednesday.

To stop treating patients in the knowledge that they are being sent home to die is an unacceptable breach of the duties of any health professional, said Lin Homer, the head of immigration services.

Homer said she found it very difficult to see how Sumani's case differed from the many hundreds of similar cases reported each year.

We deal with many hundreds of cases where the personal circumstances reach and touch the people involved. It is one of the things that makes being a caseworker in the agency a difficult job, she said. Deportation of Critical Patient Condemned
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