Should This Woman Have Even Been Allowed Into Our Country?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4176406/Meet-Nigerian-cost-500-000-IVF-triplets.html

[vortex]

The woman does sound rather blasè about it all. Along the lines of: 'The gift of life is priceless' so the cost is secondary.

Easy to say when she knows that her liability will amount to nothing more than the term itself.

[anotheoldgit]

vortex
/// Regarding the circumstances of where she was, she went into labour 3 months early and so finding herself in the UK was a fluke. ///

You really think so?

She would have travelled directly from Nigeria to the USA, (can't see why she needed to go via London) but when refused admission into the US, somehow managed to get her flight ticket altered to drop off at Heathrow.

I can see no reference about her going into labour on her way back to Nigeria, thus forcing the Nigerian flight to divert to Heathrow.

[Gladeian]

Because these children were born in th UK will they automatically acquire UK citizenship ?

[Gromit]

There doesn't seem to be direct flights from Lagos to Chicago, and more importantly back. I made a search with Skyscanner, and every flight involved flying to a European hub airport such as Heathrow, Paris Istanbul, before flying on to Africa.

https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/ord/los/170228/170308/airfares-from-chicago-o-hare-international-to-lagos-in-february-2017-and-march-2017.html?adults=1&;;children=0&adultsv2=1&;amp;childrenv2=&infants=0&cabinclass=economy&rtn=1&preferdirects=false&outboundaltsenabled=false&;inboundaltsenabled=false&ref=flights_seo_landing_page#results

[anotheoldgit]

gromit

This site give 22 flights from Lagos to Chicago, all have 'stop offs' many at US airports, but I could only find 2 which stopped off at Heathrow.

The shortest timed flight takes
18 Hours 32 mins. And stops off twice, once at Lomé, the capital of Togo and New York.

http://www.flights-idealo.co.uk/result/HgZjY

[lindapalmara]

I only just noticed that she had been turned away from US. This was a blatant attempt to sponge off the NHS and it's about time we stopped this kind of abuse to our system whilst people who have lived here and paid into the system cannot get treatment.

I see Gomit is pontificating again. As far as I am concerned it is a current topic along with the abuse of our NHS.

[jourdain2]

If she was in labour, common humanity demands that she received care. The problems lie in why she was pregnant (IVF is expensive) ad how to regain the cost to the NHS. Someone mentioned earlier that Nigeria receives Foreign Aid payments, so that makes for a simple solution. Every Nigerian making use of the NHS must have the cost of their care deducted from the amount of foreign aid given to the country. This could apply to all citizens of every country which receives aid. Fairly straightforward to administer as well.

[EDDIE51]

We had no option but to allow her into the country. She was on a flight to the USA via Heathrow when she went into labour. The plane was given priority clearance to land and she was taken straight off the plane to a maternity unit. It was a medical emergency so we had no option but to allow her in. I have posted on this before on one of your threads AOG ! , we CAN NOT refuse to admit a medical emergency.
She never intended to come to the UK.
This case is unlike the 200 and more Nigerian mothers who arrive at Heathrow on the 'Lagos Shuttle' every year, who come false on travel permits issued by corrupt officials in Nigeria in return for a bribe!

[EDDIE51]

Jourdain , attractive though your Idea is it is totally impossible to implement. We can not deduct money from international aid due to a foreign government to pay the medical bills of one of it's citizens.
How is the 'Son In Law' problem by the way? I did try to contact you on the original thread, any news?

[jourdain2]

I earlier today, Eddie - thanks for asking - 5 hours ago apparently. :)

[anotheoldgit]

EDDIE51

/// We had no option but to allow her into the country. She was on a flight to the USA via Heathrow when she went into labour. ///

The question that must be asked is why did she choose a flight from Nigeria to the US, via Heathrow?
See the lists of flights the cheapest is direct from Lagos to Chicago with two stop offs once at Lomé, the capital of Togo and then New York.
http://www.flights-idealo.co.uk/result/HgZjY