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British doctors, nurses and midwives hailed as heroes for tackling Ebola are handing back the medals they received from the government in protest at undocumented migrants being denied free NHS care.
Around 20 NHS staff will on Tuesday return their medals to the Cabinet Office and hand in a letter to Downing Street, telling Theresa May of their “great sorrow and shame” that “hostile environment” immigration policies which she initiated are leading to needless suffering and early death.
A tough regime of checks on patients’ eligibility for NHS care, and insistence that migrants – often penniless – pay what can be huge sums upfront before they can be treated, began in 2014, when May was the home secretary. But it was tightened last year, when she was prime minister.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...est-over-migrants-being-denied-nhs-healthcare
Around 20 NHS staff will on Tuesday return their medals to the Cabinet Office and hand in a letter to Downing Street, telling Theresa May of their “great sorrow and shame” that “hostile environment” immigration policies which she initiated are leading to needless suffering and early death.
A tough regime of checks on patients’ eligibility for NHS care, and insistence that migrants – often penniless – pay what can be huge sums upfront before they can be treated, began in 2014, when May was the home secretary. But it was tightened last year, when she was prime minister.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...est-over-migrants-being-denied-nhs-healthcare
