Man dies after hospital refuses him treatment because he was foreign
Monday, May 6, 2013 @ 10:41 AM
AN IMMIGRANT who had lived in Spain for eight years has died of tuberculosis after being refused medical treatment because he did not have a health card.
The international charity Médicos del Mundo ('World Doctors') and independent political party MÉS de Mallorca have publicly condemned the fact that the young man from Sénégal lost his life when the hospital in Inca (Mallorca) declined to carry out any tests on him.
They say this is a direct result of cutbacks in healthcare funding including the Spanish government's decision to withdraw health cards from all non-EU immigrants who are not paying into the Social Security system enabling them to have a residence permit.
The deceased had gone to his local doctors' surgery on April 21, and was told to go to Inca Hospital immediately.
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