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-Many Non-EU NHS & care workers are fighting #Covid_19
-What happens if they die & their family's stay is tied to them?
-1 yr extension only for NHS nurses & doctors. What abt porters, care takers, cleaners (1) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/government-reviewing-nhs-surcharge-for-migrant-medics?CMP=share_btn_tw
-Many Non-EU NHS & care workers are fighting #Covid_19
-What happens if they die & their family's stay is tied to them?
-1 yr extension only for NHS nurses & doctors. What abt porters, care takers, cleaners (1) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/government-reviewing-nhs-surcharge-for-migrant-medics?CMP=share_btn_tw
-from this week's inquiry the 1 yr extension is NOT clear for many working in NHS that aren't drs or nurses.
-What abt care takers, many BIPOC who are putting their lives at risk?
-In October surcharge will increase to £624 per person per yr this is still to take place (2)
-What abt care takers, many BIPOC who are putting their lives at risk?
-In October surcharge will increase to £624 per person per yr this is still to take place (2)
-Hostile Environment creates such fear migrants *specially in precarious migrant status* will not go to GP let alone hospital bcs of terror of being charged, detained & deported. Ireland, Portugal & Spain recognise that hostility towards migrants is a matter of public health. (3)
EVERYONE no matter immigration status should have access to healthcare & gov help to overcome a global pandemic but naahhhh here we are still with hostile environment.
Pls stop with the *exemptions* to migration rules as it reinforces good vs bad migrant.
Pls stop with the *exemptions* to migration rules as it reinforces good vs bad migrant.
