Healthy Illegal Immigrant racks up £100000 NHS charges

[Dedworth]

An illegal immigrant not eligible for NHS healthcare has been staying at a British hospital for more than a year - costing taxpayers £100,000.

The unnamed Pakistani national - whose visa to visit the UK expired in September 2007 - is still a patient at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, West Midlands, despite being treated and declared fit to be discharged in August 2010.

However the hospital has been unable to discharge the man because it is waiting for the UK Border Agency to fix a date with Pakistan International Airlines to transport him back to the country following cardiovascular treatment.

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Am I alone in thinking we should have a topic heading of " You Couldn't Make it Up" or "Farcical Britain"

[imagine]

Am I alone in thinking we should have a topic heading of " You Couldn't Make it Up" or "Farcical Britain"

go ahead do it

[scott&ligaya]

just another crazy situation, Heh Dedworth you mised the jailing of those two car crash insurnce con men (they defrauded nearly £1million) and yes you guessed it... they are not exactly anglo saxon. think I saw it on yahoo

[RickyR]

When we were in the UK last year, and Marvie was pregnant, I received and paid about 3000 pounds worth of bills to the NHS for her medical treatment (blood tests, ultrasound etc).
Is this is a fair system?

[Dedworth]

When we were in the UK last year, and Marvie was pregnant, I received and paid about 3000 pounds worth of bills to the NHS for her medical treatment (blood tests, ultrasound etc).
Is this is a fair system?

No - you are the mug for not binning her passport and any other ID then telling the hospital she was a penniless asylum seeker

[chinee]

I feel for you, we paid more than £5000 the time I gave birth coz I i needed c section. It's really, really unfair!

[philuk]

you should have just left the country like so many do without paying. read about it all the time, bringinf relations here just to have opperations they cant afford in there own country and then just go back without paying a penny,

Allways the way play by the rules and get screwed