Asylum seeker denied cancer treatment by Home Office dies (The Guardian) (26 September 2019)

The Guardian reports on the sad news that Kelemua Mulat, an Ethiopian asylum seeker and client of Duncan Lewis has died aged 39. Kelemua was denied potentially-life saving cancer treatment by the Home Office as a result of a flawed policy on charging overseas visitors for NHS care. Her lawyer, Jeremy Bloom, trainee solicitor in the public law department is quoted; “Ms Mulat’s additional pain and suffering may have been avoided if the Home Office had provided accurate information to the hospital about her immigration status – or better yet, if hospitals were not compelled to carry out this discriminatory and unjust policy.”