Transplant patient to remain
Roseline Akhalu to be allowed to stay in the UK
Quakers and human rights campaigners have applauded a court’s decision to allow a Nigerian with kidney disease to continue to live in the UK and to receive NHS treatment.
Roseline Akhalu, who moved to Britain legally in 2004, had earlier been told she would be deported. Doctors warned that she would be dead within weeks as the medication she needs would be too expensive for her in Nigeria.
Adrian Rose, a Friend in residence at Glenthorne Quaker Centre and Guest House, where Roseline had stayed, was among those backing her case (see ‘Home Office set to deport transplant patient to Nigeria’, 9 November).
At the appeal hearing, the judge ruled that the home secretary had made the wrong decision in requiring Roseline to leave the UK. He said her removal would break up her private and family life, which is of value to her church and local community.
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This is very good news.Roseline will wait for a kidney transplant but may not live long enough to get one. This October there were 6342 UK citizens listed for kidney transplant. At least 300 die each year waiting. Most are not aware that any healthy adult UK citizen can give a kidney altruistically to the NHS which will tranplant it to the most suited person. It is no big deal for the giver but a very big deal - new life - for the recipient. Please see http://www.giveakidney.org the website for the charity Give a Kidney One’s Enough.
By chris burns-cox on 11th December 2012 - 12:59
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