The UK's continued shameful neglect of migrants' health.

摘要

While all eyes are on the death of Jimmy Mubenga at the hands of a private firm contracted by the Home Office, another practice with potential fatal outcome by the UK Borders Agency continues quietly and unnoticed. In the context of a recent court case, it has come to light that people removed to countries where yellow fever vaccination is mandatory for entry are not given the vaccine. How does the Home Office get round this requirement? A woman and her child who was born in the UK were removed to Cameroon last May without the child being vaccinated. Their appeal was rejected based on a letter from the Border Agency that states that there is no facility or obligation at the Yarl's Wood detention centre to provide yellow fever vaccine, and that "the Healthcare Manager at Yarl's Wood has confirmed that the vaccine can be given on arrival in the Cameroon and would be effective straightaway".