NHS 'refused to hand dead baby's body to parents who couldn't pay £10,000 fees'

[Northerner]

The NHS reportedly refused to hand over a dead baby's body to the parents because they couldn't pay the £10,000 medical fees.

Dr Joe Rylands told how he was working in an unnamed maternity hospital when a pregnant woman from Western Europe on holiday in the UK was admitted.

At eight months pregnant she had started bleeding before obstetricians performed an emergency caesarean.

Tragically the baby died - before the parents were then reportedly interviewed on the ward by an oversees visitors manager in charge of billing.

The grieving couple were then told to pay £10,000 for the care they received after it emerged they did not have a valid European Health Insurance Card.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-refused-hand-dead-babys-17795076

 

[mikeyB]

Notwithstanding the comments after that article referring to health tourism, this lady was on holiday, and the behaviour of the hospital was heartless and despicable. And distinctly inhuman.

Apart from anything else, £10,000 is an accountants invention. The folk doing the work are paid to do what they do. It’s not an additional cost. I’d like to see how that is costed out.

 

[mikeyB]

An illegal immigrant, then