In January the government sent a terminally ill Ghanaian back to her country because her visa had expired. Yesterday in the European Court of Human Rights it was agreed that a Ugandan woman with HIV be sent back to Uganda as the drugs available in this country were available there also.
A NHS hospital bed costs an average £250 a day.
In 2003 a Government panel estimated the cost of providing treatment and preventing onward transmission for the 899 asylum seekers suffering HIV would be between £500 Million and £1 Billion in a life time.
This is a piss in the ocean when you consider the government is paying out £80 million a day just to have a presence in Iraq.
