Asylum seeker billed £10,000 for NHS maternity care ‘could only afford penny a month’ | NHS

The needy asylum applicant, who has been bills more than 10,000 pounds, can have a child who can pay only one fils per month, which leads to urgent review calls NHS Motherhood shipment for immigrants.

Kim, 34, whose name was changed to protect her identity, was contacted and then contacted by the debt collection agency after a Caesarean section in emergency situations.

Asylum seekers, Those who get about 7 pounds per day per person As for food, clothing, communications and hygiene tools, with a small “healthy food” for young children, they are exempted from charges under NHS cost recovery program. The plan was presented for the first time by a conservative government 10 years ago this month, and visitors and migrants were targeted abroad.

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The Kim case was complicated by the changes in the event of deportation. She got asylum in the United Kingdom in 2017 after a campaign against government critics in Zimbabwe, the country of her birth, but was rejected.

In 2021, she became pregnant and made a new request, after she struggled to do this early, because of the epidemic.

After the birth of her daughter in March 2022, when she got a demand for asylum activity and should have been exempted, the Kim Motherhood Bill was done by LEDS to teach NHS TRUST (LTHT) for 10,703.23 pounds.

The fund later told the debt collection agency that it owes 3450 pounds in the sponsorship of the previous internal patients to the mobility problems that occurred after the first request to resort.

Kim, with the support of the National National National Foundation (NCT), wrote to LTHT, saying: “I am The law is forbidden to work You do not have a bank account.

“I would like to propose 0.01Pa £.

LTHT now apologized to Kim for “any distress caused”, which confirms that they “canceled” the bills by simply receiving “updated information that shows her eligibility.”

“When the patient has accumulated charges to treat NHS and change his eligibility at a later time, the previous charges are still applying. If the patient is considered an impartial or at risk of imminent anxiety, you may choose confidence not to follow the debts at the present time,” added Magnos Harrison, chief medical official in the insurance fund.

It is recommended in the United Kingdom that pregnant women have a prenatal date 10 weeks ago, but the fear of charges means that Kim did not seek to care for prenatal until four months, which NCT encouraged.

“The risk is that the incorrect implementation of the rules prevents women from seeking prenatal and post -birth’s care,” said Judith Dennis, head of the work of the motherhood policies. “This has serious effects on the safety of motherhood (and) the health of women and infants.”

Anna Miller, the world’s policy doctors, said that accusing immigrants means children who were parents here for years “born in debt”, without any evidence of the effectiveness of a policy that led to “people avoiding treatment” until the crisis.

Describing the effect of the charges, Kim said: “I really felt depressed … Where will I get this money? I was still a new mother, and I also breastfeed …

Kim remains in places of residence in asylum, where the residents complained about mold and cockroaches, pending a decision regarding her demand and the presence of the college, in the hope of studying nursing.

NCT calls for an examination of maternity charging and access to immediate translators and “safe housing” for pregnant women who suffer from immigrants.

“The NHS shipping threat creates an anti -pregnant women with an unclear migration mode.”

A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said: “The residence is required to resort to strict standards, and regular inspections are performed to ensure that they are preserved.

“NHS is a system based on residency, and it is right that those who have not been legally nominated here, or exempt from the charge, must contribute to the cost of sponsoring them.”