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Kurdish refugees denied access to hospital treatment

By Liz Fekete

11 April 1995

North Middlesex hospital has been reported to the Commission for Racial Equality over allegations that it is refusing to treat Kurdish refugees.

According to the manager of a GP practice, the hospital is screening patients whose first language is not English and had so far refused to treat at least 25 refugees, all of whom were fully entitled to NHS treatment.

GP-manager Vinod Thaper said: 'To screen people in this way is outright racism. In effect what is happening is that this hospital... is acting as an immigration service'.

Independent 21.2.95

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